>>5369124https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEwUFtjAr4Catalyst whistles when he sees the extent of your haul, and you don’t blame him.
The sight of it all is enough to momentarily steal your breath away.
Art, jewels, precious metals, even a massive stack of bearer bonds.
It’d take you a hundred lifetimes to ever earn this much with an honest job.
Guess Pedraza was smart enough to keep a nest egg on hand in case he ever needed to beat a hasty retreat to a non-extradition state with loose banking laws.
It’s even more telling that there isn’t a single scrap of the national currency included amongst his hoard.
But amidst the treasures and other various shinies, you’ve only got eyes for one piece in particular.
The Ace of Winchesters.
A legendary rifle smithed by a particularly unorthodox Texas Ranger who sold his soul for the knowledge to create his masterwork. It’s supposedly a primo demon killer, but you’d rather not put that to the test unless you really have to.
Better get this secured as soon as possible.
You ping Jack with your comms sigil.
> “Found the Ace. Do you have a fix on my position?”“That I do, I’ll swing by momentarily and snatch it. Fantastic work, Sean!”
True to form, Jack materializes in front of you a minute later, shatters the display glass protecting the Ace of Winchesters, gently retrieves it, tips his hat at you, and teleports back to the mansion.
It’d be great if Jack was capable of getting here without using you as a tethering point, but that’d take all the fun and challenge out of it. Besides, the ritual he’s been cooking up is apparently finicky if left unattended. Better to avoid the risk of this all backfiring somehow.
You put a call in for reinforcements to stand watch around the vault, before resetting the security codes and closing it behind you.
You trust your men implicitly, but there’s no reason to unnecessarily tempt fate.
