It had been a rather successful week for most of the Freelance Team One members, and with their weekend starting the next day, they headed home to get some rest. But not Gallows, their manager and leader. She had other plans.

Walking through her home-away-from-home in the city of Echo …

Gallows yawned slightly as she walked along the path of Greenfields Park. It was one of the few places near Breakwater Omega that had no laws regarding public decency or sexual acts, given the fenced-off tree-filled nature of the locale, and she rarely went anywhere on her own homeworld as …