Chapter 11

Greg was reading Sush’s profile. The first part, he already knew: only child; orphaned at age ten; stayed with maternal relatives until a few days shy of her eighteen birthday before the last of them - her uncle, passed on. After high school, she took up mechanical engineering with a full scholarship in her first year, partial scholarship in subsequent years while taking up jobs at restaurants, malls and two-day events that pay a lot. She graduated with a Second Class (Upper) Division and secured a job at a moderately reputable company but quit two years later and joined the hunters.

Here was what he didn’t know: she took multiple courses in hacking; her parents were what they called Liabilities - non-hunters. Both died in road accidents, albeit separate ones. It was rare for a hunter to be born out of two Liabilities, but history did prove this was possible.

In the midst of working, he heard a shriek, followed by a crash and an overdramatic, “Ouch! Ooooh! Help!” coming from somewher