BROODING | EVIL
Jeung was always the first kid into anything new on the scene. First
to dye his hair, first to get a lip piercing, first to get into (and
then out of, as others picked up on the trend) a series of increasingly
bewilderingly-named Euro dance trends.
Cousin Seung was always the second. Always second to his more glamorous, more daring relative. Always.
The way Seung tells it, it was him that saw the opportunity lying
there and came up with the idea of putting the Blood Roses together,
but it was Jeung who lifted the idea and ran with it, his status on the
Waterfront club scene ensuring that it was him and not Seung who would
be at the centre of the organisation. Seung was relegated to his
familiar role as lieutenant and back-up man to Cousin Jeung. And then
even that wasn't secure for him, as the rise and rise of Charlotte
Bloodrose began. Jeung and Seung were blood-kin - the kind of blood that
the Blood Roses were supposed to be all about - and had known each
other all their lives. Seung had been loyal to Jeung all that time and
now Jeung was starting to take advice from that little piece of scheming
Virginia Gardens new money trash?
Shunted further into the sidelines while Jeung - and now
Charlotte too - basked in the limelight of the Blood Roses' growing
achievements, Cousin Seung's resentment grew.
It was the Lindochem courier heist that brought everything to a
head. $30 million in bearer bonds being transported in an armoured van
from Silverfield to Havalynd, a sweetener to the company from another
corporate suitor in the proposed sell-off of one of their developing
world subsidiary operations. It was Tyron Sennet who first picked up
rumours of the deal. It was Byron Bloodrose who hacked the courier
company's systems and scoped out the details of the time and route. It
was Michael Simeone who found a broker in Europe who guaranteed that he
would be able to sell the bonds back to their owners for as much as
thirty cents on the dollar. Jeung and Charlotte would be leading the
heist crew, with everything timed and planned to the usual Blood Roses
perfect precision.
It was a trap. Justin Teng's pet ex-military strike team were
waiting for them at the ambush point. Byron had picked up whispers about
the op on the Praetorians' communications net, and managed to get a
last-second warning to Jeung and Charlotte. They got out in time. Four
other Blood Roses, including a school friend of Charlotte's, didn't.
Charlotte got mad. Said Seung had tipped off the Praetorians,
hoping they would do what he didn't have the guts to do himself. Jeung
wasn't sure, but it was only a matter of time before Charlotte
sweet-talked him round to having Seung killed. Michael Simeone
interceded, vetoing the idea - no wasteful internal warfare,
particularly since there was no proof against Seung . Tyron Sennet
stepped in and decided that it would be better for all concerned if
Seung wasn't around. He was moved over to Havalynd, and given what he
had always wanted; a budget, and a remit to start up Blood Roses
operations in a territory of his own.
Did Seung set Jeung and Charlotte up to be killed by the
Praetorians? How much did Simeone and Sennet know about what was going
on, and just how unhappy would they be to see the fiery and
unpredictable Jeung replaced by the far more malleable and controllable
Seung? To know the answers to these questions, watch the kind of moves
Seung is starting to out together down there in Havalynd.
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