How it starts
"Take it, or spend the night in the ditch." Toni slaps a thick bronze key flat against your palm, then turns the bolt in the iron gate behind you with a loud clank. Summer air smells of salt and hot limestone. "First to the marina gets the slip fees. Move."
The setup
Dusk falls over the dry moat below the Valletta fortifications. Toni has spent six months watching you patch his bruised wheelmen in a quiet basement clinic. Tonight he wants you out of the shadows and on his payroll, but local port inspector Vella is tightening inspections and Toni's family ties are beginning to fray.
