OrangePanther

Yeah, I need to edit that. My bad!

I'm slowly editing out A LOT of old writing errors from this story. Smoothening our dialogues, fixing some pacing issues and such... I have a lot to fix before I can continue writing. I don't really know how long that will take, because this story is my favourite. I write these days between work breaks, on the metro, weekends or just general downtime... I don't get as much time as I used to back when I was in university last year. One thing I can say is that I will continue this.

I adore this review! Thank you so much for reading and reviewing!

They show up later in the story.

Had it changed. I have it in the AN for this chapter. I need to edit the previous one.

I have been wanting to get back to it to. Though, I'll probably do a rewrite. I do have the entire skeleton plot somewhere on my laptop for this. Though, I'll get to it probably after a couple more arcs for my Cyberpunk story.

around this time, a little over 11 actually. I'm working on last chapter of book 1. and then I'll put in a time line for everything along with the interludes.

You're right about most animals being extinct. And there isn't much given on how Rebecca came across the aforementioned puppy. But given that it's being given such clear weight, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a runaway dog from a corpo home. (If I really have to theorize, and create a background from the dog; I'd go with a dog that's been neglected due to surmounting stress of the owner) Canonically, she cane across a dog, and had to stop and cuddle it; and in doing so, she garnered the attention of a group of passing scavs.

It's literally canon. She actually did find a puppy once. Source: Cyberpunk Wiki.

Issues with most of these things, apart from lack of money, is that Zain's inherently afraid of *all* tech that's on display around him. Cyberware is just the tip of the iceberg. Bioware is essentially serums, modified augmented muscle tissues grown in labs. He doesn't know what that chemicals will do to him. He's seen the most poverty ridden, ill managed examples of Cyberware and Bioware around him. Like faulty Cyberware on some poor idiot under the bridge, or a guy's cheap bioware causing erratic muscle spasms and other nonsense. Another example of Bioware in the ads he's seen are Mr. Stud and Midnight Lady. ...and there's enough cautionary tales in the streets of people's dick melting off due to over stimulation, or them being rendered impotent, or having acidic sperm. Same case for midnight lady. If you listen to chatter with the civs and joytoys in the Mox, you come across an ex Mox with a fault breast bioware that secreted apple juice instead of milk.... and well, she had faulty bioware if you scan her using optics. Dunno what that did to her, but well you get the idea.