Chasing Bronze-Stepping

Bronze-Stepping has been flagged as the primary lead for Dicard’s project team to interview.  

His name came up as a result of Vizierate enquiries into Argyle while the team was returning from Pristine.  

It is thought that he may have worked with Argyle in some capacity while he was at The Black Palace.  The team has an address for him in a place called Snow Lake.

Bronze-Stepping doesn’t know the team is coming.

Meeting Bronze-Stepping

A thin old man is sitting in one chair facing the televid. He is wearing a mask with a tube running to a large tank of oxygen next to the chair. Next to him is a small table with a few bits and pieces: a glass of water, a dirty bowl, the televid remote, an ashtray containing a few coins, a pen, a bottle opener and a rubber ball. A walking stick is leaning against the chair.

He looks at least 27 kCY, probably older.

With a wheezing voice from behind the mask he says, “Oliver Starr,” he looks deliberately at Oliver’s vest, “a Vizierate contractor.”

He turns his head and takes in Chris and Fromm, who are standing near the doorway, “and his cronies. What do you want with an old man, Mers?”