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The Management - Chattel Lien and Retrieval Order (Sanchez) Draft

An in-world prop from Ronin Sanchez’s background. The house’s standing instruction to repossess the augmentations still legally theirs. The near-perfect twin of Six’s Asset Recovery Notice: two men whose bodies are someone else’s property, one who knows it and one who does not.

The document (in-world)

OFFICE OF THE HOUSE  ///  ASSET & LIABILITY
FOR THE ATTENTION OF RETRIEVAL AGENTS ONLY
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CHATTEL LIEN — STANDING RETRIEVAL ORDER
Ref: HOUSE/PROT-07/SANCHEZ    Priority: OPEN

LIENED PROPERTY (installed in the person of the
former protection asset "Sanchez"):
  · Supernumerary limb set — one pair, lower.
    House-commissioned bio-sculpt. NOT his.
  · Ocular enhancement suite. NOT his.
  · Threat-assessment neural co-processor. NOT his.
  · Reflex-tuning package. NOT his.
  All four financed under the bespoke-protection
  contract. Title remains with the House until the
  balance is cleared. The balance was not cleared.
  Employment was ended for cause. The debt did not
  end with it.

STATUS ....... The asset absconded down the lanes.
               Location intermittent. Standing order
               remains OPEN until the property is
               recovered or written down.

RECOVERY TERMS — READ CAREFULLY
  The House wants the property. The property is
  installed. The man around it is not, in himself,
  an asset of value, and the House is indifferent to
  his condition on recovery, provided the co-processor
  and ocular suite are returned intact and readable.
  Preserve the hardware. The rest is at the agent's
  discretion and the agent's conscience.

IDENTIFYING
  Cannot be concealed and has not tried. Four arms,
  the lower pair set below the first. Small frame,
  ~4'9". Immaculately dressed on no money, which is
  its own signature. States your odds of dying to
  your face, unprompted. You will know him inside a
  minute of the same room.
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This order is House property. It is not a warrant
and claims no colour of law. It does not need one.