PolicyPolice

The fevered mind of steve presents:

Reaching the LEARNER

Part 3

Another part of town.

Another kind of life. Off

database. Cash economy.

We call them hard to

reach, but most of the

time they’re invisible.

Lives we have no

connection with. And the

less we know about them,

the less we have to try.

Hey! Looky here! Looky

here!

What?

It’s trying to learn me stuff

What stuff?

I dunno, just stuff

Stop arsing about and find something

useful. Something that’s worth

something. Capische?

Heh. Gotcha! Universities. Got the best muck. Bona fide

scholars only.

OK. Gimme. Gotta go see

the man.

Faren! Dude!

Tex, baby!

We gottabreak. A fix on

the missing hand-job. Somebody’s downloading.

Excellent. Gimme the coordinates.

Should have guessed it

would be the wrong side

of town.

You come here for three

things. Sex, drugs … and

a frisson of danger.

Kof! Retch

Ugh!

Wakey, wakey!

Your friend wasn’t so lucky.

Friend…?

Dari?

Dari! Wake up!

You bastard! You killed him!

The cheap shit did for him long before I arrived. Like I said, you

were lucky.

I’m after a government hand-job.

Where is it? Gone

Gone where?

Dari’s man.

And the man is…?

I never saw him.

None of my business.

And if I help a cop I’ll get my throat cut.

I’m no cop. I’m a subcontractor. You smell

like a cop.

And you smell like puke. Clean

yourself up and get a life.

fuppa fuppa fuppa fuppa fuppa

C’mon.

???

Gotta run.

fuppa fuppa fuppa

RUN!

???

fuppa fuppa

Who else is on this

case?

Did they fill in the

right forms?

Find out in next time

in

Reaching the

LEARNER.