Creating My Own Paradise

For Claire this was a nightmare, never she would have imagined this outcome at least not so fast, and the pandemic propagated fast if she had any of this would have happened she would have thrown all her family in Elysium... But it was too late now

And so the year 2062 arrived, in all of this her mom became depressed, they later both mom and daughter discovered the secret card with found that Cole put apart

At least this gave a period of respite to the grieving family, after a week Camilla decided to pack and move the family, she made even the stupid mistake to sell all of her husband ripper doc equipment but Claire deeply hurt by this gave her mom one option she will not sell the cybernetic hand, the ripper gloves of her dad and all the educational materials for rippers, or she somehow will leave

Camilla had never seen her daughter so determined and with the maturity she had Camilla had no doubt that even at mearly 8 years old she would do what she said, so she coincided,

Overall Camilla with all the money they had they could like fairly well if they used the Eddis wisely;

So they moved to little china, more precisely in the mega complex in little china, Camilla decided to rent an apartment with only one bed, to save as much money as possible

And so mother and daughter began to sleep together

All of this happened in a span of 5-6 days

22 of January 2052

Claire was 9 years old, after some discussion with her mom, she could finally move more by herself, her mom not being at home for a large part of the day since she found a job as a waitress at a small diner fairly close to the mega complex, gave Claire the liberty to go outside by herself, but before that she decided to give Claire a mask, Camilla condition was

"Bunny, I will be blunt, I know you are smart but when you go outside use ALWAYS and I emphasize the ALWAYS the mask do I make myself clear little lady?" Camilla sai with a stern look at her daughter

"Yes mom I understand, but why the mask?"

Asked Claire fairly confused, she had understood the problem but it was better to have an *outsider* opinion

" Bunny, I don't know if you noticed but your look is too perfect, you have some touches somatic traits of your father and I but the vast majority? Sometimes I wonder if you are some kind of expensive doll with that look"

Camilla said seriously

"Understood mom, no outside if no mask"

Both Camilla and Claire were aware of what kind of people wound attract if her look where to be found from the wrong people,

'i had my doubts about why I was banned even by dad in showing my face even from his friends, well he was in a way right, no one is to be 100% trusted in night city, only some characters from the game deserve that kind of trust, but I don't know them, and for sure I will not trust them from the get go, that was a game now if a do bs like that I game with my own life and my mom safety'

Even with her mom concession Claire didn't go outside for a few weeks and continued with the help of sage in steamrolling all the study materials she could

She heard recently of the massive amounts of people that were moving to Pacifica after the massive storms in Haiti

' now I know how the Voodoo Boys came to be..so this was the beginning, I'm approaching fast the main story'

During this unsettling period for Pacifica, Claire decided to go out, with mask equipped and neutral black clothes a hoodie and some short pants, her mom bought for disgusting her daughter to be a boy

The mask was an aluminum one, it looked like a hokey mask but without the holes except for the eyes

So like that Claire did go out, her destination? Find Viktor Vektor the ripper,

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A strange child with light pink shoulders length hair was wandering trough the streets of Little China asking for directions for the Ripper known as Viktor Vektor

After some misdirections alas because of herself she found Viktor's clinic

'umu I'm here...it's around 13:00/13:30? Not yet open it seems I need to wait' thought Claire a little dazed, it was difficult to breathe without holes in the lower part of the mask

'by the way who is the lunatic that designed this shit mask'

And so time passed slowly with Claire standing near the entrance of the clinic, some time later a man did go at the entrance of the clinic and opened it he threw a glance at the suspicious dwarf * cough cough Claire* that man was of mittle age? He looked around his 30s, right arm heavy tattooed, left some small tattoo dots, sunglasses and earrings,

'looks like a cybernetic hipster, nice stile'. Thought Claire slightly smiling under the mask

With her short legs she jogged towards vik clinic the moment he opened the door not even giving him the time to enter the clinic himself

"What do you want little ganger (meaning gangster in CP)?" Asked Vik not even bothered but still suspicious

"Sir Ripper I need to talk to you in private" asked Claire with a little bit of hesitation

Vik looking at the child suspiciously exhaled slowly as if he was tired 'now what does a child do in a plece like this and why the hoodie looks so full this child don't look obese' "ok little ganger come in"

Going in Vik Sat on his chair and took a stool near him indicating Claire to sit, crossing his arms asked "what do you want child?"

Claire straighten herself and began talking

"Sir did you know a ripper by the name of Cole Glover?"

Vik reminiscing his late *colleague* looked at the child, it was rare that a ripper would die, since they were non common in night city so the news of his death was fairly known especially between rippers

"Yes little Ganger i know of him and his demise so what does it matter in this conversation?" Asked Vik looking a bit sharply at Claire

"He was my dad, I studied under him and while I'm still nine years old I have surpassed the medium standard exam for rippers on BDs (braindances) so I came here to ask you if I can be an assistant for you, no pay, but I need two conditions"

"So you came here to do biz? Ok I need a little helping hand even better if it comes with no price, but what are the conditions?"

Claire began to take out all she had hid in har hoodie, a couple of cyberwere and her dad last equipment

"Sir fist I need to exchange this cyberwere for some implants for me second I want you to actively teach me"

Vik a little bit surprised spoke " High Grade Cyberwere not top class but good stuff....mm talk me about the implants and regarding the teaching I will do what I think is important for your formation, no whining or you can go out as far as I'm concerned"

"I need the basics, neural link, holophone, interface implants, chipware socket, and a Personal Link that it"

"...I see, a full ganic, I'm surprised you actually succeeded in coming all the way here without any type of navigation system.. ok, I will do a favor in exchange for that crome I will give you high grade implants"

Said Vik looking at Claire with his kiroshis active analyzing Claire

"I hope so I needed to hide that crome from my mom, and there is a pair of good kiroshis there too, also can you make some breathing hole in this mask?" said Claire shrugging her shoulders

" You are really a little ganger, well go to the chair there I will start now, and don't worry about the mask"

Claire standing up removed the mask and sat on the chair, Vik did go to after her adjusting his glove

"ready?"

"Ay captain"

After sedating Claire Vik began to work

'now I understand the mask smart move cover herself' thought vik while working

After some time Claire woke up

"How is it little Ganger"

"Strange but no real discomfort by the way can I come here to train too?" Asked Claire glancing at the rear of her new workplace, looking at the boxing's bags

At that moment Vik eyes lit up a bit " ok little Ganger now take these they will help learning and with navigating the streets"

Vik gave Claire a pair of techgogs and gave back the mask alas modified, it was cut in half to cover the lower face, holes for breathing, and some type o port in the upper part to lock with the lower part of the techgogs

Claire knew Vik was a upright person but this really moved her especially because this was night city

"Little ganger go home now tomorrow I want you here 14:00 SHARP clear"

"Crystal, boss"

And so Claire equipping her new mask plus techgogs did go home

'sage set the destination house'

"Yes, Claire"

And so Claire did go home a little later arrived her mom and noticing the crome and the modified mask had a discussion that night with her mom, luckily her mom know Vik so the scolding was much less severe for Claire

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