>>6327173Jonah continues with his breakdown. "Notoriously hard to get a bead on, but we got lucky. He ambushed <span class="mu-r">Bandersnatch</span> in a dream a week ago, but our boy fought him off. The trail went cold, but he picked up a lead yesterday at the <span class="mu-s">Riley Sea Wall</span>." He says, and the holo-display shows the imposing structure in question. Built at the end of the Reconstruction War, the Sea Wall was a joint effort by the Charleston Municipal Authority and a few megacorps (Traepac, Yamamori, and Pomona), as a means of protecting the city from super storms and tidal waves. It's the better part of a mile high from sea level, and extends far to the North and South, wrapping around Charleston's coast to guard it. There are dozens of large, mechanized portals by which ships are able to enter and exit the bay and harbor areas that dot the structure. It's an imposing, dark grey bulwark that looms along the horizon as far as the eye can see from the shipyard, and still functions just fine after a century and some change.
<span class="mu-g">"That's excellent news, but we've searched the structure dozens of times before. Some two hundred thousand squatters inside, huge portions of it honeycombed with power tools; it's a labyrinth full of urchins. What changed?"</span> You inquire, gaze locked on the images of the huge, grey monument.
Jonah smirks. "We found his blood." As he says this, images gathered by different surveillance cameras arrange themselves on the holo-display. She's just a child, with dark skin, big eyes, and her hair in bantu knots or dread locs in different photos, her clothes are baggy, dirty, and full of holes. "You're looking at Imani Marie Freeman, the great, great, great, great, great, great granddaughter of Sullivan Freeman, aka Sullivan Tidewinder. Her father, Ben Cooper, is deceased, and her mother, Assata Freeman, is an addict hooked on benzo-patches, or at least the bootleg patches manufactured by scumbags in the bowels of Riley. She used to be some kind of revolutionary, but things fell apart, now she's hiding at Riley, and the world's forgotten her." He goes on. "Bandersnatch hasn't made direct contact, but is maintaining a visual. Threw some coins to some junkies that Assata rolls with occasionally. According to them, Sully visits infrequently to look after his girls. We're reasonably sure they're the only family he's got left. May be our best chance to lure him out in the waking world."
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