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The Wires Above Bolton Street
Katita wheels an unconscious, bandaged man across two thin parallel wires strung between the rooftop of Bolton Street car park and a facing apartment block, red dust—or blood—smeared across her nurse's uniform and sword-wielding assassin's flak jacket. The man, later named Leif, cannot walk, cannot see (bandaged eyes), and wears a Hawaiian hibiscus shirt. His chest bears a blinking red diode connected to a jury-rigged external pacemaker. She breaks through the apartment window. An elderly couple, Mr and Mrs McRae, deploy antique pendant exoskeletons called the "Mighty Mechas" in a cartoonish battle. Leif's massive hand cannon fires. They escape down a twelve-storey stairwell. The camera catches Katita's face: no smile, only strategy. Katita: “We need to break the cycle. We can do it we can do it we—” The city of Newcastle sprawls below, indifferent.