After The Wire

Jace grins through an arrest he designed. Brother Milo is inside Palliser Site 7, a woods labor camp that is not on maps. Dex is already there and makes it worse. Day is pit work. Night is lockdown and empty bunks. Then the tree line fails. Things that used to be people come through the wire. The brothers cut out through halls, kitchen, tunnels. They take Dex because leaving him is worse. After the fence they are wanted and broke. They steal from people who earned it. No innocents. Do not leave the crew. Last Sitting, a dead diner and motor court, becomes home. Iori, Mika, and Nova join. Six people. One booth. Palliser sold prisons, pharma, and tours. Real work: the camp, creature trucks, splice labs, auctions. They made Iori. They put the eel in Milo. They booked Nova as cover. Government on the board. Stay free. Keep the six alive. Burn Palliser. Close-quarters first. Heists second. Found family always.