#threadwithveer

Veer was a leader simply by chance and good connections. They had no credentials, no qualifications, no experience. Simply the eagerness of someone who’d been done wrong by the system, who wanted nothing more than to change the status quo, to save his people in the Slums.

And the Grey Lilies was the way to go for those. 

Some choose different routes.

“First time the Tears still out of the news, bhai,” they said to Apollo when their paths crossed. They didn’t think either of them had the time for small talk, but they weren’t after anything else now. Just a break.

Veer walked around the streets that had been used as race tracks, perhaps too close to where the racer by the name of SHATTERSTAR had been captured, but they were too curious. They watched the remnants of an Overseer operation. The races were always moving, always in a different part of the city, but now... they wondered how long before they'd be set up again.

"This used to be such a nice street," they said, seemingly to no one in particular, though they'd spotted the Detective of course.

Veer hung out in the lobby of X Academy often. Less now that the Overseers were paying too close attention to the Slums and the posibility of finding the Grey Lilies, but he still used his time well: he would send up some lunch for Rasleen and take a quick peek before returning to the streets.

The only problem was that public transport was still out of order, and getting through the Mawar District to the Akumu Slums was harder now, but he'd make it on time. He still had a job to do. Getting friendly with some of the staff was high on that list, but not too high. He didn't need Rasleen to become a target should anything go wrong. He was careful.

The fact that he'd gotten close to the CEO was not surprising, when he'd been in prison, he'd also been besties with the prison director, who he figured had been very sad when Veer had escaped.

"Amarin-Zhao-ji, how have you been?"

It was rare for the Grey Lillies to make the news on grounds of anything radical. They were not thieves like the Crew, or suspected of experimental weapons. At most their names showed up for activism. X Academy was smart enough to have a lid on direct attacks. Though they certainly were more radical than the Isles. 

But showing up now, Veer knew he and the others had to ensure the safety of their members.

He tapped Kyrie on the shoulder and gestured for his fellow Leader to follow him inside the small Sushi shop in the mall. 

“What chaos, yaar.”