PrettyPosie
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The streets were dirty and dark in this part of the city, the underground and grunge on the edges of society forming it's own city totally apart from the corporations and tall, pristine buildings that marked the rest of the metropolis. Evening put on a good face for the city of Kylar, but only because the darkness hid the less pleasant parts, it's dark crevices creeping with diseased shadows and the vermin of mankind.
Margot walked alone, unperturbed by the area she found herself in, her gait relaxed and confident as she strode to her final destination. On the corner under a streetlight there stood a man, unsuspecting and apparently loitering, his broad shoulders tight and flexed under a somewhat nice suit jacket. In different lighting one would see that it wasn't a rich suit, and most likely not brand name; people in this part of the city couldn't afford that kind of clothing, no matter how much aide they got from the government and they certainly wouldn't go advertising their wealth around here, even if they had it.
In her thrift store jeans and woven jacket and scarf, Margot fit in with the neighborhood, her shoes scuffed on the bottoms but well made. She gave a small quirked smile to the man as she approached and he opened the doorway flushed against the wall behind himself, giving a wary glance around as he let her in. Walking through a dark corridor Margot made her way suredly in the dark, a low pulsating thumping growing louder as she approached a door at the end. Opening it the darkness was broken by multicolored strobe lights that shot their randomly flashing beams from the ceiling and somewhere in the middle of the room. And as soon as the door opened, the thumping grew in tone and gathered tune, a throbbing beat and grating faux guitar that sent a shiver up her spine as it moved through her. Sliding into the large and spacious room she was filled with a sense of snug closeness as wall-to-wall bodies surrounded her, her form slithering through the crowd with ease.
As she moved through the club, occasionally jostled by a swaying form, Margot felt alive. Looking around, watching the people familiar with the scene, some in their extreme get-up, and others dressed like her all filled with the freedom and anonymity that the dark club and dance floor provided for them. There wasn't anywhere else you could go these days without the eye scanners catching you and cataloging your presence, an automatic flash of light over your eyes as you passed through a doorway or got into your car. The club was completely identity free and money could be used here without your name and DNA being attached to it.
Approaching the bar, Margot smiled at the man behind the counter, his own suave grin given a grotesque cast by the septum nose piercing dangling just above his menacing goatee. Unlike some of the more judgmental populace, Margot was not bothered by this in the least.
"Give me a Fyre Lung," she said casually, her voice straining to reach above the pounding of the music that dominated the air. There was the slightest hesitation in the barman's manner but he finally reached under the counter and pulled out a 1.5 oz. glass and a bottle also from under the counter filled with a clear almost neon orange liquid and poured her a drink. There weren't that many alcoholic beverages allowed any more, what with the government outlawing everything it considered to be too dangerous to the health and well-being of it's citizens. But in places like these, if you knew what to ask for and how to ask, you could get the stuff that the law was too scared to let you have.
Laying a CRED down on the bar and sliding it forward, she winked at the man and downed the drink in one gulp. CREDs were an obsolete version of payment, what with chip implants that logged straight into one's bank account, but they were still allowed as they were used in place of money people did not have and many lower class citizens hadn't moved on to higher technology. Also CREDs were another way to pay anonymously as they did not require a name or a computer to access the set value.
As the drink slid a path of fire down her throat, Margot pushed the glass back at the barman and turned to survey the room. A little ways away just at the end of the bar she saw a man with the telltale signs of a dealer watching her. As her dark eyes met his light gray gaze, he popped something small and pink into his mouth and gave her a smile, beckoning her close with a finger. Walking towards him, her hips swayed to the music a little and he leaned in close to her ear when she was close enough.
"Would you like to try?" he asked, his acrid breath cascading on her bared neck, hot and sick. Smiling, she drew back and leaned into him, her lips capturing his and her tongue diving forth. When she pulled away, the small capsule of pink now lay in her mouth and she grinned smugly as she wandered away. Glancing back once, coquettishly, she saw him look dismayed and then amused as she took off with the drug without paying. But it didn't matter much, it was only a sample dose and all she really needed.
Swallowing, she proceeded to the dance floor where the music was the loudest and where the bodies were the closest. Forms swayed to the beat and legs and arms moved fluidly together, the crowd becoming as one, like a creature undulating rhythmically in a spasmodic haze. Margot let herself be taken away as the tingling of the drug in her brain mixed with that of the music that turned the air into a throbbing thing she could feel in and out of her skin. Several moments passed and she began to grow tired, finally snapping out of the hypnosis of the dancers, to break away and wander off to a the edges of the room. Working her way along, she searched for someone to keep her company, her deep brown eyes traveling over the faces of those who loitered, looking for someone just as lonely as she was...
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