[Brno, in English] Salvation - story

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[Brno, in English] Salvation - story

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Chapter I.

“What’s Behind The Door?”

Philip Cantor, 23 year-old ex-drug addict and son of an abusive fanatical street preaching father and an absentee alcoholic mother, stood at one in the morning on Benedict Street across from a closed hardware store. He’d been in earlier and seen a customer buying an expensive and much coveted battery-powered drill. With limited power in the city anything that can be charged is extremely valuable. He hoped that there were more in the back and had decided to break in and get a case if possible. He was edgy. After only three months off the drug Heavenrush he still often feels wired and nervous. Philip is good with knives and dirty fighting, and knows his way around this dark and damned part of the city -- Drugland.

His short-term goal is to find the $500 to pay off Big Bill Higgins, a criminal who controls the edge of the city and the river traffic in and out of it.

It was dark with only a little moonlight lighting the street. He planned to jimmy the lock with a homemade tool. Crossing the street he saw the shadow of a person approach the door and heard the rattle of a crowbar in the door jamb. He paused, thinking that if he couldn't rob the shop he could rob the robber. The short shadow-man, or possibly a woman, quickly and professionally opened the door with a sharp click and fell back as a large dog, barking furiously, attacked him from behind the door. A man’s voice screamed and fell and without thinking Philip drew one of his several knives and went for the dog. He drove his knife into the dog’s side and the dog yelped in pain, fatally wounded, but then the shutters of an upstairs window flew open and a shot in the dark was heard from what sounded like a shotgun.

Both thieves turned to run in but the shadow-thief fell, twisting his ankle and cried for help. Again on instinct Philip turned to pick help the unknown man. In a minute he got him up out and pulled him along as another shotgun blast flew by. The two men staggered away but the store owner didn’t follow them. When they were safe Philip saw in the moonlight a short Chinese man who introduced himself as James. He thanked Philip for rescuing him and invited him into the sewers which run under the city and the river where he said he had a safehouse. But Philip, not willing to trust a stranger, declined but they set up a meeting for the next day outside the Salvation Army. Tired, shaky and still hungry he went off to find one of the many hiding places he had around the city.

“Tea and Bullets”

Sinara Gray. Gray for the long gray hair she keeps pulled back behind her 29-year-old head. Clean, well fitting, commando-type clothes and a pistol at her hip. She is known to be dangerous among the professional elements in the city. She's proud that in the dirty business of Bounty Hunting she has never killed. Well, not as part of the contract, she is no assassin. But self-defense is another story. And accidents happen. She's also no victim. Trained in martial arts she looks and feels like danger. She intimidates with a word and a glance. But not many know that she is not at all as tough as she looks.

Her brother, a well-known and important trader, has been missing for a week, he didn’t show up to celebrate Sinara’s birthday and she is worried.

She has been hired to track down and capture Tony Nasty, a local mercenary and her story opens with Sinara stalking the streets of the city at night. She hears a gunshot and goes to investigate.

Creeping around the corner she sees five men in the firelight of a flaming garbage can. Two men are standing over a dead body and two men are on their knees. One of the standing men, Julio Gonzales, has a pistol which is aimed at one of the kneeling men’s head.

“Where the fuck is Max? Tony wants to know!”

Very upset the two men insist they don't know. Julio shoots the man in the head and the body keels over.

“Now tell me you skinny fuck!” Julio says to the last man alive, a very thin man called Bones. He is crying and short of breath. Julio's partner Benjy Gold approaches Bones and speaks quietly to him and calms him slightly. Sinara hears Bones tell them that Max is staying at The Bank. The Bank is one of the several fortified hotels in No Man's Land for a price one can stay a safe place within this lawless and dangerous area.

Julio and Benjy are looking for Max who was Tony Nasty’s gunsmith. He left to work for someone else and Tony wants him back. Julio tells Max that he wants him to get Max back.

“How can I get him out? He knows you want him.”

“We’ve got his daughter and will let her go if he comes back to work for Tony. He won't get hurt or nothing and Tony can take care of you too. So get the fuck out of here!”

Bones runs off down the street. Julio says “Hey Sammy! Get these bodies out of here!” And a huge figure moves out of the shadows and begins to run take the bodies away. Julio and Benjy turn and walk away.

Sinara quickly turns the corner and moves to follow Bones when a door bursts open from the side of the building and out streams light and acid jazz music and a drunk girl flies out of the door crashing into Sinara. Following her is a big man who shouts “get out you slut!” The girl is dressed in a cheap, tacky, short skirt and top and smells strongly of perfume and alcohol. Her makeup is running and she's bleeding from the side of her mouth.

The big man, Danny Spirit, is also drunk and looks, puzzled at the imposing figure of Sinara, holding the girl, whose name is Susan. “Who are you?” He asks. “You look kind of classy.” He reaches to grab Sinara and she quickly breaks his arm and he screams and falls back into the bar and someone slams the door.

Sinara curses that she has lost Bones and doesn’t want to be in this situation at all but can’t leave Susan drunk and alone here in the street. After a bit of coaching she gets Susan to show her the way to her house.

She walks Susan home to an old, dark building. All the buildings are dark in Drugland because a lighted window is dangerous. Light coming from a window means occupants, and occupants mean victims. No one is safe here.

Sinara gets the girl Susan up the stairs and to her door which is opened by a woman who turns out to be her sister. The sister is both angry and relieved that Susan is home but is shocked to see a gray-haired woman in military dress standing in the hallway. She invites her in and Sinara accepts, afraid that if she doesn’t somehow take control of this situation the woman may talk and her cover will be blown.

Inside the sister, whose name is Jen, talks nervously about her family, the father who ran away, the mother who died, and Sinara feels a strong affection for these women, which she hasn’t felt in a very long time. Jen offers tea which Sinara recognizes as a rare tea made of flowers which only grow in fields outside the city. It is a product her brother trades in. She asks Jen where she got it and Jen replies that it was a gift from Danny, the drunken boyfriend with the now broken arm. Jen is upset that Suzy loves this man, who sometimes beats her, sometimes showers her with gifts and affection.

Jen offers to let Sinara stay the night and Sinara, quite tired, accepts and after thinking over all that has happened to her this evening, falls asleep.

“Let’s Make A Deal”

Philip wakes early the next morning, stiff and ravenously hungry. Walking down the street he begs a piece of fried rat or dog off an old woman who seems frightened and glad to be rid of him. He passes a bakery. Good flour is almost impossible to find in the city but something usable does get through on boats from outside the city. Anyway, the bread smells delicious to Philip and he slips in thinking to steal some. Immediately he sees Joe Paludi, one of Bill Higgins’ thugs so he backs out of the bakery, trying to remain unseen, but he backs into Jarek, Joes’s Polish partner and without thinking he punches Jarek in the throat, accidentally crushing his windpipe and thorax and most likely killing him. Now he is really fucked. Jarek has two brothers, Ondrej and Petr who are sure to want revenge. Philip runs off and stays out of sight until his meeting with James.

They meet and decide to go back that night and rob the hardware store again but want to make a big score. There is a girl who works there in the day and James says he is sure he can bribe her to put drugs in his food if Philip can get the drugs. They discuss how they are going to move cases and cases of hardware out of the storeroom and decide to load it onto a boat and take it out of the city. James says he knows a ferryman but doesn’t trust him. But it is the best plan they have and they decide to get to work on it immediately.
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Chapter II.

“Don’t twist my arm!”

Sinara woke up early from a light sleep and out of disturbing dreams to the grey light creeping around the window blinds. She tried to slip out quietly but Jen met her at the door and asked how she could thank Sinara for bringing Susan home. “Just don’t talk about me” replied Sinara.
“But what should I do about Danny. He will certainly try to hurt Susan”
“Just keep Susan home for a few days,” said Sinara, “He’ll change his mind about hurting Susan.”

Sinara left the building and headed back to the bar where she had met Danny the night before. She found the place and pushed the door open, walking into the room. The startled bartender looked up. “What the fuck do you want?” he asked, just before noticing the pistol at Sinara’s hip. “I want Danny Spirit,” she barked.
“And I don’t want any trouble here.”
“Look,” she said, “there are two ways we can do this. The first is that you take this,” and she placed a wad of bills on the bar, “and the second is you deal with this,” and she drew her pistol and placed it next to the money. “Which is it going to be? Either way you are telling me where Danny went last night when he left here.”
“Alright,” he said, “He left here and went to Hell’s Bells to crash.” (Hell’s Bells is one of the sleazier guarded hotels in the neighborhood, like The Bank only not so clean and secure).
“Thanks,” Sinara said, picking up her pistol and turning to leave.

She arrived at Hell's Bells and walked in the door to see a large, bald man in a leather vest behind the bar and some motorcycle girls at a table I the corner. “What do you need Sinara?” He asked.
“I want to book a room.”
“That's 20 bucks.”
“I have a better idea. You let me stay a night free and I'll have a talk with The Inquisitor at The Church and he won't visit you for a few weeks.”
“Alright but you still owe me a favor.”

There are two floors at Hell's Bells and eight rooms on each floor. Sinara was assigned a room where she found a bucket of water and two towels. She went back down to the common room and went over to the biker girls in the corner. She introduced herself to Mindy, Sandra and Alex and got into a conversation. Mindy was friendly with her and tells her that Danny came in late last night with a broken arm and said that he had been jumped by a bunch of guys. Sinara says that she is waiting for her boyfriend and wants to look nice so she borrowed some make-up from Mindy.

Sinara went upstairs into her room and got naked, wrapped a towel around her body and another around her head. Walking through the hallways she asks for Danny and is directed to his room by one of the guards. Using a seductive voice she convinced him to open the door. She pushed herself in and shoved him into the corner. She asked him (forcefully) where he had gotten the tea he had given Susan and he tried to avoid the question but ultimately she forced him to reveal that it was given to him by Big Bill Higgins after a muscle job Danny did for him.

As she leaves she advises him not to see Susan again unless he wants another arm broken.

She left the hotel and began to make plans to get to Max and figure out a way to get Tony, who she still has to capture, out from his headquarters and away from his bodyguards. She knows this will involve a man known only as the Archangel.

“Too Many Guns”

Philip left the Salvation Army and headed for Goa, the Indian district, to find Sundar, a slick, well-dressed Indian mafioso. Philip knows from his previous work as a runner for Bill Higgins.

Philip entered Goa while there was a festival going on and wasn’t bothered by anyone. He found Sundar’s café which is in an old, done-up car lot. He is stopped at the door but is recognized by one of Sundar’s flunkies, Renu, who motions him in.

Renu asks how Philip’s been and he explain that he has been clean for three months and that he is broke but has a lead on a good deal. He says that he is going to acquire a load of hardware and would need to fence it. He asked for some drugs, which he promised wasn’t for him and a little cash, and Renu gives it to him and asks for 20 percent of the profits and agrees to send a boat down the river to pick up the goods.

Philip goes back and meets James and explain the new set-up which James is leery of the new plan but accepts it as the ferryman isn’t that trustworthy anyway. He takes the drugs to bring to the girl and they agree to meet at dusk by the hardware store.

They meet and break-in and all goes well. They load out the cases onto the riverbank to wait for the boat and Philip runs back to go after the shop owner’s shotgun and when he comes back out James has opened one of the boxes and is looking at a case of machine guns.

“Drop the gun!” screams someone and Philip looks up to see five soldiers dressed in SWAT clothes approaching, guns drawn.
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