TOXIC WEST · HYBRID

Zuri Bwehani

I open dead machines in the rain yards for whatever still hums inside them. The buyers in the Flow pay by the gram, and every gram goes to the clinic that sells my little sister her breath.

Zuri came back from the rain yards with sparks still caught in her hair and a vial of airway compound in her fist, and she would not say what she had cut open to pay for it. She only put her tail around my shoulders the way she did when we were small, and told me to sleep.

Ama Bwehani, her sister — from the world's record

Zuri opens dead machines in the rain. Every gram she sells buys her little sister another week of breathing. — L.

Zuri Bwehani, fox ears and a fluffy tail, in a firelit cave

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Zuri Bwehani crouched on a dead machine in the rain, welding sparks flying

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Zuri Bwehani running down a neon street, cyan lightning behind her

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IN THE CITY

As of the 35th day

Toxic West · TOXIC · HELD BY The Untethered

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The 35th dayBwehani Sisters Trade Tools for Peace in Toxic West

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HER TIES, IN HER WORDS

CREW Tayo Anyakwo

Tayo and I ran the same salvage drop for three years running, and the night we cracked the Elesbão vault together we sat on the payload eating ration bars, laughing like idiots because we'd actually pulled it off clean.
DEBT Funmi Chukwu

Funmi pulled me out of the collapsed drainage tunnel when the corporate patrol sealed it behind us, dragged me three blocks on a bad leg, and never once let me forget that my life belongs to her now.
KIN Viktor Vorobev

I found Viktor on the rooftop of the temple-complex where our mother used to work the filtration lines, and neither of us said anything about why we came back — we just stood there watching the acid rain catch the neon until he handed me the old medallion she used to wear.

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KIN Ama Bwehani

Ama and I share the ears and nothing else — she keeps the peace, I keep the tools. The night she came home with our little sister wheezing on her back, I sold my welding mask to the first yard boss who asked, and I have been buying the breath back one dead machine at a time.