Rolando was uncomfortable with the people around him. He never had an issue going into the areas of poverty, he'd had to do it several times on the Rim chasing after one random person or another. But the under city area that Dubois was walking through like it was just another day in the life was dingier and more awful than anything he'd seen on the Rim. It was probably due to the under city existing for a lot longer and having a more set in stone social structure of awful, than anything in any far colony. The people in the under city were sad people, they had that beaten down look that spoke volumes. Dubois at least knew where he was going, which was nice because it was definitely the kind of place where getting lost could get you dead.
"Gentleman." The two people in front of Dubois looked less like gentleman and more like the kind of people you'd accidentally bump into and regret having touched them.
"One eye is here, told you he'd come back." The shorter stockier one did all the talking, what Rolando could tell his name was slime.
"Right, gentleman I'm looking for a man works with the Lyn's likes to make bombs." The two looked between them like they knew, but didn't want to say what they knew.
"What do we get one eye?" Dubois didn't blink, he pulled his large pistol and primed the first shot.
"You get to live, at least for a day, ask again like I'd bother to pay either of you scum suckers and I'll come back down here personally to execute you for the insult." Mordere's weren't known for treating people with kindness, or even basic courtesy.
"Easy one eye know need to pull on us we're just trying to get by." Rolando understood the men's issue, his father had dealt with scummy people before, they didn't start out assholes, they learned that from their time amongst assholes.
"Well get by on someone else, my associate and I are on a limited timer, so the bomber.."
"Right right, yeah your bomber he came looking for some gun thugs earlier, anyone who could pull and not shit themselves, he was going to roll up on a hospital to off some lieutenant like your boy." Rolando immediately got worried, if the Lyn's thought they had put Rolando in the hospital and not Barker, Barker was in immediate danger and for the crime of simply being near Rolando.
"I'd say thank you, but neither of you earned it, tell anyone I was here and you'll never see the bullet that killed you." It seemed strange to tell two of the scummy shits not to alert anyone to their presence when just about everyone could see Rolando and Dubois, but clearly there was a power structure Dubois counted on. They were outside the undercity when Rolando turned to Dubois.
"You're not coming with me to the hosptial are you? That was all for show so that I save Barker and you get rid of me?"
"And Trezlan always thought you slow young Lorentino." Rolando sighed and let the assassin past him.
"How will I get to the hospital?" Dubois tossed him a com device, something cheap and possibly not even legal.
"Good luck Lieutenant I don't suspect we'll meet again." And so Dubois left to go kill Lyn as he had intended on before getting side tracked. Rolando set out for the hospital and a lot of people ended up dead, as was common in the world.
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