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The Corner Table
What's your interest in where it leads. Axar looked at him. Cardo had taken the loss, filed it, and come back with the one question worth asking. The full attention was still running, warm and patient and not going anywhere. He'd earned the question by not asking it earlier. The honest answer...- Axar
- Post #18
- Forum: Interstellar Market
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The Corner Table
He came up solid. The left side delivered its verdict on the way and Cardo took that too, same way he'd taken everything else in the last four minutes. Noted, filed, kept moving. Axar let go of his hand. The tactical read landed clean. Already decided before the hook was loaded. He hadn't...- Axar
- Post #16
- Forum: Interstellar Market
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The Corner Table
Axar watched him go down and didn't move in. The takedown attempt had been the right call — underneath the striking range, drive for the legs, make restricted form answer a different question. It had almost worked. The almost was the interesting part. Cardo had gotten the arm around and for one...- Axar
- Post #14
- Forum: Interstellar Market
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You Left
A Kai. He filed that against what he was looking at: the lack of armor, the ease of the distance she'd chosen, the way her attention had moved to the wall seam and come back without apology. Three thousand years in the post. Left it. The math on that was interesting in ways he didn't intend to...- Axar
- Post #4
- Forum: Interstellar Market
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The Corner Table
The shoulder came in hard and committed, and for a half-second Axar let it happen — let Cardo drive into the pocket and find out what was there. What was there was a frame that didn't give. He absorbed the push, planted, and made Cardo pay for the clinch range with two short shots to the ribs...- Axar
- Post #12
- Forum: Interstellar Market
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Sharing the Floor
The Gravitron Facility smelled like scorched metal and recycled air. Axar walked in from the market corridor, already reading the room: four other users on the floor, none worth attention, gravity set to a standard 1.5 G. Manageable. He'd been pushing twice that on his own. He found 64 the same...- Axar
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- Forum: Interstellar Market
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The Corner Table
Fast landed first as information, not flattery. The right hand came in clean, no tell in the shoulder, and Axar slipped it with a weight shift that cost him nothing — but the kick was already there, and the kick was the real question. Low, probing, looking for the base. Axar checked it with his...- Axar
- Post #10
- Forum: Interstellar Market
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The Corner Table
Six weeks of protein bowl as a performance variable. Axar filed that under things people said when they were comfortable, which meant Cardo was already thinking about the fight rather than the conversation. So was he. He followed. The access corridor ran two levels down through the IM's...- Axar
- Post #8
- Forum: Interstellar Market
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You Left
He had been watching the corridor for three minutes before she turned the corner. Not her. Nothing she was doing. He had been watching the corridor because the amber lighting had cut the sight lines and his Ki sense had been the fallback. Standard practice after Signal Noise. He had trusted the...- Axar
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- Forum: Interstellar Market
