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« @SILVERHAND » TEXT ✧ AUDIO ✧ VIDEO ✧ ACTION Johnny Silverhand ✦ Cyberpunk 2077
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it's not like jail would be an option for me. what i'm involved in is life or death.

[He assumes he's talking about being back on his planet, or whatever. He still remembers talk of that corporation running the place, back on their bus ride. He chalks it up for the execs gunning for him, or something. Wouldn't be surprised.

But-]

Yeah? Here, too?

i'm keeping an eye on someone dangerous.

Imagine there's plenty of dangerous people here.

[Some might even label Johnny as much, given his past act of terrorism. All a matter of perspective.]

What's so special about this one?

[cloud considers himself dangerous...!]

he's the one who decimated my home.

[Well. That deserves a pause.]

The one you told me about?

So why are you just keeping an eye on him instead of gunning him down every chance you get?

i've tried that already. he hasn't lived through the experience. i'm five years into his future.
anyway, this isn't about me. [the reason for his texting johnny] how did you end up in jail?

[so, cloud is asking for the story after all.]

Edited 2021-04-03 01:14 (UTC)

So? Then you nip the problem in the bud. Easy, right?

[Maybe Johnny's playing dumb at the complications; he's too smart to not know they exist, and that's the frustrating part: he's fishing.

But-]

Thught you didn't care about why I was in the slammer?

he's insanely strong. that's the problem.

[anyway— time to be huffy.]

don't tell me then.

Never stopped me before.

Can just imagine you getting all huffy right now. Fine, because I’m nice: me and V tried to steal a guitar.

if i did it your way i'd end up locked up, by the looks of it.
is this also why v hasn't been around?

Sometimes your luck is shit. That’s just the reality of being a merc.

[Maybe if you weren’t green, you’d know that, Cloud.]

Ran a lot more dangerous gigs with V before. Generally got a higher success rate than that, and a lot more lucrative, too.

you giving out free advice now? that's way too charitable coming from you.
so, what happened this time?

Not advice. Just the reality. Matter of time before you see the inside of a cell.

Had a fight.

doubt it.
that's where the betrayal comes in. you got into a fight with v?

Edited 2021-04-04 16:03 (UTC)

Sure, you keep on thinking that.

Sure did. Gonk’d been acting strange for a while now. Matter of time before something was going to boil over.

was it worth it?

[the guitar. getting locked up. fighting v.]

Didn’t get the axe, but figured some other stuff out. I’d say so, wasted time not withstanding.

[sounds alright, then... he'll have to check up on v, too.]

a friend of mine gave me some food.
you can have some when you get back. but since you're a whole new criminal, i guess you would have taken it even without permission.