The Net Caster
By airyfairy
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The Net Caster (Part One)
StarMo's are pretty much all the same, when you come down to it. But there was something about this one...
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The Net Caster (Part Two)
Every single biological thing in the Universe leaves a trace.
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The Net Caster (Part Three)
Hamish Mansoorian had out- manoeuvred me and everyone else far more times than I could recall. But this...
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The Net Caster (Part Four)
Was Hamish Mansoorian alive or dead? And who had purchased his soul?
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The Net Caster (Part Five)
Under Cytherea's two suns, the talking taxi was taking me to a destination I knew nothing of.
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The Net Caster (Part Six)
I saw them then, the gold uniformed officers, marshalling the crowd, herding it down the boulevard towards me.
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The Net Caster (Part Seven)
I slid into the mob. Their eyes darted instantly to my face, scanning my forehad, seeking any trace of an Irrevocable Tattoo.
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The Net Caster (Part Eight)
I began to shake. The room rippled round me and the options of weeping or going to sleep vied for my attention. Was I a murderer, or just a thief?
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The Net Caster (Part Nine)
Finally, I could start casting a net for Hamish Mansoorian. But the results were impossible.
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The Net Caster (Part Ten)
The silver dust coated my skin and lips. A haz-bomb. What contaminants was I taking in through my lungs, my skin, the water I drank?
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The Net Caster (Part Eleven)
It hardly mattered in which direction I walked. It was only a matter of time. And there was a figure standing at the end of the street.
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The Net Caster (Part Twelve)
A table, a bottle of Aphrodite whisky, and two glasses. The scenario was familiar. Was this really down to dumb luck? '
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The Net Caster (Part Thirteen)
Faced with a professional assassin awaiting instructions to kill me, I poured myself several glasses of whisky.
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The Net Caster (Part Fourteen)
Perhaps I could just stay here in the four poster bed, lulled by lavender and flowers and the odd bottle of Aphrodite whisky.
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The Net Caster (Part Fifteen)
There was nothing soft about the woman sitting at the table. And how did she know my mother?
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The Net Caster (Part Sixteen)
'I've never been asked to look for something like that,' I said. 'No Net Caster has ever been asked to look for something like that.'
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The Net Caster (Part Seventeen)
'What?' I said. 'You set me up for murder so you can offer me a job?'
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The Net Caster (Part Eighteen)
Not all blight survivors survive intact. 'You kept me drugged for a week?'
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The Net Caster (Part Nineteen)
Living on my home world disturbs me. Spider webs disturb me though I've never seen a spider. We learn to live with disturbance, with always being disturbed
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty)
Face to face with the man I had been searching for, the man I grew up with, the man who betrayed me. The man who was either dead or had never existed.
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-One)
'I've got nothing left to lose,' I told him. 'You haven't asked about your sister,' he said.
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Two)
I began to laugh from fatigue, shock, grief, and an overriding terror of being locked down here in this cellar with a group of disparate and apparently ill-matched Bios.
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Three)
I knew who she was. We all did. And every face was afraid.
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Four)
I looked at Hamish. Who had replaced the dodgy businessman, the charming, self-serving rogue I had known since childhood, with this stern creature who delivered lectures to the powerful?
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Five)
Even the members of the diaspora cannot agree on the best way to save it.
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Six)
'It's government,' said Madam. 'They choose what they will and won't tell the governed. And in this case, they are completely and utterly right.'
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The Net Caster (Part Twenty-Seven)
'You needed someone you could manipulate,' I said. 'You just had to be given the right job,' said Hamish.
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