[Milliways: In Haddyn]

Pretty routine grab, this. A private museum in some guys apartment in the Uppers, top-of-the-range but predictable security arrangements. An old and quite frankly ugly naked ceramic snake-woman thing, and me.

Oh, and that. That’s nice.

It’s a jade chip necklace with a bone pendant, in the shape of a turtle. Right next to the snake-woman-thing. I don’t even need to break another case, so I’m having that.

 It’s not like me to take stuff for myself. I’m usually not nearly that stupid. These things can get traced, usually it’s just get what Gunther’s paying me for and take the money. But I like this. Even if it’s nothing like my usual style.

 I bag the snake thing and fasten the necklace around my neck before running for it, wondering why I’m thinking about that strange dream I had about three months ago, about some tav. I guess that featured turtles, didn’t it? A radie who looked liked one?

I’m wondering so hard about why I’m thinking about turtles, that I don’t see the lurks until I’m right on top of them, literally. I’m running along the rooftops, and they’re… well, lurking, on a roof of a slightly lower building, which I intended use as a starting point for my descent back homewards. Instead I jump down into a circle of vampires.

There’re at least ten of them, and they’re cocky.

And they have knives.

Oh shit.