Her
ancestors lived on the high plateaus of Anamite, in Vietnam. The were Christians.
The have fought against the Japanese, the Vietnamese, the Khmers, the
Chinese... The had a tough life. In 1975 the Revolutionary
North-Vietnamese army destroyed all their villages and murdered the people
who lived there. The ones who survived fled up the mountains to even
more isolated villages and kept fighting. Twenty years later a group
of 400 exhausted warriors handed themselves over to the UNO-soldiers.
Among them was a young woman who gave birth to a girl in a refugee-camp
in 2003. That girl was Blade. The
violence and alertness that was in the history of her people had past on
to the young Blade and she went to Euro-Lopa,
the former axis London-Paris. That whole area was now one gigantic
agglomeration of buildings, highways, railways. A megalopolis with 500
million people, a very sophisticated latest generation of internet,
suitable to be accessed by the mind and, of course, countless secret
and lethal and ruthless agencies hunting down people who form a threat
to... well, who form a threat. And Blade
became a ronin. A killer or protector, a personal insurance.
The scans below are pictures of her assignment as a ronin of Tim Page. She
got that contract from a man named Voto who also gave Tim Page a contract
to steal some micro chips. |
