[Cyberia] Re: Cyberia: An Ill-Met Welcome

[Cyberia GM]

"You are both of the Blood of Amber?"
      
Dot looked at Suhuy, then to Asha.  "Ummm... Not exactly.  I don't think."
She seemed a little nervous, "why do you ask?"
      
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"Not exactly?"  She smiled, looking full at Dot.  "You don't think?" She
laughed lightly, and it was like the tinkling of bells.

"Now, that's an evasion if I ever saw one.  But if you must know, shadow
people don't usually walk shadows, now do they?  And you've already told me
that you didn't wander here, but sought us out."  She regarded Suhuy and his
pet askance, but still talked to Dot.  "And in case you didn't know it, the
KillSat pretty much seals Cyberia from other shadows.  There are ways
through, but you don't just stumble on them."  

Standing up, she walked over to the window, beckoning Dot to her side.
"Look down... To the pavement below."  Down where she pointed, a huge chunk
of pavement had been almost surgically removed, like a cancerous tumor
excised by a surgeon's scalpel.  The circular wound in the center of the
city was nearly 30 feet deep, and all of the windows that were not glassteel
around the impact had been blown out.  "We were in a pitched battle, with no
way to win, let alone survive.  This was the result of a desperate move- an
attempt to hellride out of this Godsforsaken place."

She turned from the window to look at Dot's response.  "I know that you came
here for something.  It is likely that if you level with me, I might be able
to help you.  But this sparring, while amusing, is not exactly productive."

She returned to her seat, steepling her hands as she looked from Dot to
Suhuy.  "Well?  What shall it be?"