Augustine Funnell by Rebels of Merka

Author:Rebels of Merka
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2011-12-27T03:05:51+00:00

Dawn had come; pink orange fingers of light had spread themselves across the sky when the wayfarer finally called a halt to the procession. They stood in a shadowed alleyway; and while the others waited, Brandyjack made his way to the end, glancing furtively around the corner before returning with a smile on his face.

“They’re out there,” he said.

“Who’s out there?” Thoruso asked.

“The three men we left at the tunnel entrance, at the precinct station,” Brandyjack explained patiently. “They returned to the shack, loaded up everything I assumed you’d want to take with you and are waiting out in the street. There’s someone else with them, but I can’t tell who it is.”

“How do you plan to get out of the city?” Dextor asked, realizing they were less than haft a kilometer from the wall.

“A little bit quicker and a lot more exciting than the last time,” Brandyjack replied, “although the basic premise is almost identical.” He headed for the end of the alleyway, beckoning to the others. “There should be enough oil in 10 or 20 lanterns to start one beautiful orange fire at the wall.”

He peered around the corner again, then led the group into the street. Less than 10 meters away stood three wagons, each hitched to a team of horses. Hurriedly, they climbed into the wagons; it was rather crowded but no one was in danger of falling out. The wayfarer nodded to the drivers, and they began to guide the horses through the narrow street. The street’s state of disrepair made it an uncomfortable ride.

There were, as Brandyjack had said, a considerable number of oil-filled lanterns in one wagon—the lead—and as they approached the end of the block where they would turn right and be in sight of the wall, Brandyjack began lighting each and every one of them. Snake and Dextor assisted though neither knew exactly what Brandyjack had planned.

The fourth person waiting for him, Brandyjack was pleased to discover, was Mandy. Smiling at him, she perched on the seat of the wagon obviously afraid and uncertain as to what she had gotten herself into.

When they reached the end of the street, Brandyjack nodded to the man holding the reins, and held up his palms in a gesture of halting toward the other two drivers. The lead wagon turned the corner, the man at the reins yelling at the horses and slapping their backs with a long switch.

They were within 20 meters of the western wall and the barred gate when Brandyjack tossed the first lantern, not bothering to observe its flight to see where it landed. Dextor and Snake began throwing others as well, and almost immediately the wall became a sheet of solid flame; the oil spread across the wall and quickly ignited other sections.

From a guardhouse near the gate rushed three frightened guards, but they had no time to draw their weapons before Virgil fired twice, killing two of them; Moore’s marksmanship accounted for the third. Over the roar of flame and the crash of the stampeding wagon, the gunshots were only faint sounds.

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