A Safe Haven For A Shipwreck

"Night City was out there to get anyone gonk enough to think they could own her. Too much hunger and eagerness and the city eats you alive, and you end up dead like Jackie. But neither can you be idle for too long, lest shit finds you two steps behind with your head in the clouds... or in hell.

And that's why V had to carry on. Never mind the engram of Johnny Silverhand in her head. A yesteryear rocker boy-turned-terrorist dead for fifty years suddenly nagging and swearing in her mind like a parasite. Never mind the death sentence this Arasaka biochip stuck in her head meant. A sudden cancer slowly taking over her psyche, erasing her until nothing of her exists in the world. Never mind having lost two of her chooms in a heist that could have set them up for life, but instead it was doomed from the start. V had to dust off her knees, take her meds, visit Vik to make sure her chrome was up for some work, and get out there. Eddies weren't going to fall from the sky on their own after all."

Streetkid V and Goro's story of how two strangers were forced to collaborate for mutual benefit, inevitably falling in love with each other despite death breathing down their necks.