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Of course, getting the go-ahead will inevitably mean assuming all of Horne’s debts to Barone, as well as explaining why you are gunning for the guy in the first place. It would certainly be safer … though if Barone turns you down, then that would leave you in an uncomfortable position – and if anything were to happen to Horne after that point, by your hands or anyone else’s, Barone might hold you accountable.
It seems that as things stand right now – the best course of action is to just avoid and ignore. And if that were to change, for whatever reason, well, you have options. One of them is risky, the other expensive. But they are there … and actually, now that you have thought about it some, if it ever came to it, then smoothing things over with Horne might be the most straightforward route out of any sort of brewing trouble. At the very least, it would be less dangerous and less expensive then putting him down … though it would be much less certain.
You wait another full minute to make sure that Horne or no one else is following you, then you exit the storeroom, into the hallway. Only a few cubits away, there is a corner. The main hallway continues past the corner, and is of the same size as the one that you found the first drone in – it even has the conduit worm remains floating around in a haze as far as you can see, in both directions. The smaller corridor does not seem to have conduit worm remains … which leads you to suspect that any worms down that way are intact, if not alive and active. You quickly consult your schematic, and find that the small hallway sort of routes around the high-voltage equipment, so you would hope that the worms that you may encounter wouldn’t be too bad … but then again, consider that monster that you found in the cargo bay. That thing was only anchored on a line for light fixtures. On the other hand, you don’t know if you have it in you to deal with another one of these fucking drones.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> Take the wide hallway [drones]
> Take the small hallway [worms]
