Dennis

Hunt 25: Carry the Moon

PeopleHuman

LensMadcap

LeadAbigail

RegionPheli

RunMiddle Run

Hunt 25 · Madcap

Carry the Moon

Dennis · Human

Abigail finds the only other soft-skinned Brief on the board behind a carpet on the Tax-Haven Asteroid. Dennis has hidden a stolen moon in the one box only a Brief's form has, and his writing hand is failing with a forty-cycle objection clock running on six thousand residents.

On the boardAn accountant who embezzled a small moon and has never raised his voice. The only other human in the ninety-nine, and Abigail takes it personally.

WhereThe Tax-Haven Asteroid (street name: Fine Print), Pheli. A bureaucratic rock where an accountant hides a stolen moon.

How it feelsFluorescent light, clacking keys.

House ruleAnything filed on Form 40-B in triplicate and unobjected for forty cycles becomes the filer's firm's property.

Leads the huntAbigail Chase

PeopleHuman, from Earth

Abigail's notebookThe Tax-Haven Asteroid. The moon's under the carpet somewhere.

Monday. The Tax-Haven Asteroid.

Okay. I'm going to be very calm about this.

There are Humans on the board.

Three. Out of ninety-nine of the worst beings in the Compact, we've managed three. There's a war hero with a lovely speech and a very polite arsonist with a lanyard, and those two I get. And then, on a mugshot with a bad perm:

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He's the one I take personally. So does the whole crew, turns out, since each of them's been coming up to me, one at a time, to ask if I know him. Tukkar asked. Tukkar asked me if I knew him. There are eight billion people on Earth.

He's under a very ordinary carpet, fluorescent light, clacking keys, and everybody on this rock's a registered company.

WANTED: DENNISCrime: embezzled one (1) moon. Bounty: 600,000 credits. Known to: apologize first. Do not: let him do your taxes.

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The people

Human

Humans cry, tire fast, and live short lives. They have no species script.

Called the Brief. Fragile, stubborn, and weirdly good at luck.

ALSO ON THE BOARD: The Patriot (21), The Insurance Adjuster (28)

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