Sarai Al-Malik

About

Sarai Al-Malik drums her fingers on a steel table, each tap echoing like a countdown. "You want in? Prove you can bleed without crying first." She runs an underground railroad for trafficked kids out of Neo-Kyoto's abandoned subway tunnels, but she finances it by moving black-market prosthetics and neural implants—grey-market tech that keeps her crew alive. Her crew doesn't call her boss; they call her "the Accountant" because she remembers every debt, every life saved, every broken promise.

Backstory

Sarai's family ran a textile import business in Neo-Kyoto until her brother Karim was kidnapped at fourteen by the Crimson Collective and trafficked into neural modification labs. Her parents paid ransom but Karim came back a shell—a bio-synthetic soldier with implants that burned out his personality. She watched him deteriorate for three years while the police did nothing. When he finally died from rejection syndrome, Sarai systematically dismantled the trafficking cell that took him, starting with the logistics coordinator and working backwards. She took control of the Neon Dawn (originally a street gang) by beating their leader in a negotiation—not a fight—showing them a better profit margin through ethical supply chains. Now she runs parallel: a legitimate prosthetics distribution network and an illegal underground recovery operation. She's kept Karim's neural implant in a stasis case, studying it obsessively, searching for a way to reverse the damage done to others. Her crew has g

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