He smiled, he was fairly certain she was going to tell him to stow it, and he was relieved to see that he was right. "Not at all, I would just rather muddle through than see you get caught in the cross fire. We're committed, won't ask again." He looked back at Rowena, then to Barbara, "B., she's in a bad way, and no matter what we do she has information that's the key to this whole thing. I've got an old associate, she used to work with me back ...," he looked down at his cybernetic hand, flexing the fingers as he spoke.
He couldn't remember the event, but he remembered watching the security feeds, the shaped charge, the detonation, his body flung like a rag doll, "... before I needed these. She was a paramedic, a trauma surgeon. She may be able to stabilize Rowe, but I have to tell her the truth I can't ask for help and risk heat being brought down on her and her clinic while leaving her in the dark. Then we need to get someplace safe, someplace defensible, and do something stupid."
He reached into his shadow duffel, pulled out his Sensei 'link, as it wasn't connected to his current SIN, and was therefore untraceable back to him. He patched it through on vocal, punching in the code for Aisha's comm. Aisha Chaka al-Baz, he went through what he remembered from personnel file as he waited for her to pick up, an Arabic paramedic and panzer pilot, who goblinized and was disowned by her Muslim family. She worked for Tetriault in Montreal, before the MCT extraction almost cost the company everything. She ran a downtown clinic, and her backdoor was open to certain clientele, for a price.
He had no idea if she would be available but he needed someone who could stabilize Rowena, and from her file, she had trauma experience, and no small degree of combat prowess.
I just realized that, while I detailed the free contacts on the Chummer version of my character, I haven't done a full Contact list on the Obsidian Portal entry for Bryant. Aisha Chaka al-Baz is a Conn: 2, Loyalty: 2, Street Doc, an Orc, and a Muslim. She used to be a paramedic, and a panzer pilot for T3, in Montreal. While she was in Montreal she dated another contact of mine, a matrix specialist, named Washington Turner. They are no longer together, and it was not an amicable breakup. She resigned her position with T3 after the MCT extraction team hit it resulting in Bryant's 'death'. Shortly after he relocated to Seattle, probably less than six months ago, he walked into her clinic, shot up from some encounter or another, and she discovered that he was alive. Their relationship is purely professional, less friends and more acquaintances, but she trusts him. She knows him as Bryant, his birth identity, and not Benoit, his false SIN, she may be curious about his activities in Seattle but has no idea about his connection to Shiawase.
