#riskrunner

“You know you’re running a big risk carrying something like this into the City.”

“I won’t tell if you don’t.”

“Very funny. How’d you get something with volatile arc conductors through the cordon detectors anyway?”

“That’s for me to know and you to wish you could find out. Anyway, they’re disengaged. Harmless.”

“Sure they are. Anyway, what’s so important you had to sneak them into town?”

“Vekkis wants to see them.”

“Vekkis? That scrawny little tinkerer?”

“She’s a first-rate weaponsmith. Barely a teenager by Eliksni standards, but she’s as good with their guns as anyone I’ve ever managed to talk to about Eliksni shooters, and better than most at figuring out how to work their tech in with ours. When she heard about this piece here, she couldn’t stop asking about the arc conductors.”

“And what does she want with them?”

“Hell if I know. Maybe she’ll just study them, or adapt new designs from them, or even figure out how to reproduce them better than we can.”

“You’re not worried she’ll tear them off your gun and start messing around with them.”

“If that’s what she wants to do, she’s welcome to go for it. It’s a privilege just to see her work.”

“RISKRUNNER”