Virtual Law 1 : Reunions

The year is 2163.

After the fracturing, there was war.  After the war came the all-powerful League, subsuming all interdimensional trade, commerce, and travel under its aegis with the I-Link Network, now a ubiquitous presence in the lives of humans and off-planers.  Its paramilitary contingent was known as enforcers. 

Kate Barnes is one enforcer out of many, a face among the faceless, her life careening towards a reunification with her past, sowing the seeds of unexpected change in this eclectic world.

A Night at Pink’s

Kate Barnes, enforcer for the multi-universe spanning League, enjoys the company of her closest friend, Jackie, a cybernetic techie for I-Link security.  But through seemingly inane conversation, she discovers something more insidious about her friend. 

Reunions

Alicia Barnes, Kate’s estranged sister, lives her life on the edge with drugs and I-Link shenanigans, her glory days as the frontwoman for the transdimensional rock sensation Ambush a distant memory –until her stunts access the wrong bit of data.  But will the results kill her before the drugs do?  Or will they begin a new life for her?

Psyche

It is a routine systems check for the cybernetics of Kate’s symbiotic uniform, and then an investigation call that turns out to be anything but routine, especially with Mukai, her off-planer friend and colleague, leading them into a crossroads that may be more than they believe, and one may not survive.

Melody

Alicia, reunited with both her sister and Kumai, the former manager of her band after a heartbreaking absence, makes a discovery about herself and the off-planer that has attached herself so deeply into her life, turning both their worlds upside-down  in a way that neither one ever expected.