10
Professionals
Manu decides to talk to Oriol. For a break — not business, just conversation. After all, he’s the only one who doesn’t seem to have three agendas at once. Plus, he’s easy on the eyes.
He doesn’t get ten steps away from Toshiyo before Jaxie catches him on an intercept course. “Fancy meeting you here,” she says.
He keeps walking — Destination: Out of Earshot — and she follows along beside him. “I found you,” she says, grinning like she’s won first place in an amateur detective contest. Her mass of thin brown dreadlocks is tied in a messy knot at the base of her pale neck; her eyeteeth are lacquered in turquoise and trimmed with gold, filed to have just a bit more point than usual. She’s dressed in casual black fatigues and prickly with her usual collection of weapons han
