The girls

THE FLOW · VESSEL

Runner-Dry-Channel

My body runs on grade-A biotic fluid, and the relay stopped issuing it to runners the season the Third Artery flooded. A freight caller in the Flow owes me three cases. Until she pays, every job leaks a little more of me into the gutter.

The Hermes runner stood under my stack again tonight with teal running down her wrist into the drain, not asking. I counted the patrol gap, I counted my crates, and I still came up a case short — so I sent her one, and kept the other two a secret for one more week.

Irina Volkov, who owes her — from the world's record

A Hermes runner who is running out. The freight caller who owes her knows exactly how much. — L.

IN THE CITY

As of the 35th day

The Flow · UNDER · HELD BY The Underground

On the map

IN THE HERALD

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HER TIES, IN HER WORDS

  • RIVAL Zara "Package" Williams

    Package and I hit the same drop tower on Greel Street, same package, same buyer — I saw her first but she cut the elevator line and took my commission; I still remember the look she gave me as the doors closed.

  • DEBT Irina Volkov

    Irina Volkov calls freight on the Ninth Reroute and owes me three cases. I have never once asked her for them in front of her crew. I only walk past her stack at shift change, slowly, so she can see how the seams on my back have started to glow.

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