Billie the Kid: The Sky Fire Chronicles Book 1 by Paul Summerhayes

Author:Paul Summerhayes [Summerhayes, Paul]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Iron Dog Publishing
Published: 2017-10-18T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Tommy tracked the kidnappers across the desert from horseback. Their quarry’s trail was clear and undisturbed by the wind. In fact, the further they travelled into the wasteland, the stiller the air seemed to become. The tracker rode ahead of the rest, who followed in single file.

Pat brought up the rear of their convoy, watching the passing landscape with only fleeting interest. It all looked the same to her and she knew nothing would escape Tommy’s attention. Besides, she was a city girl, what did she know about the wasteland? Only what she learned in the Agency’s recruit training—that nothing could live out here long and remain unchanged.

The three marshals made an odd team and made her wonder how the Agency chose their people. By their gifts, or personalities, or the willingness to follow orders? Who knew? No doubt their superiors thought the three of them would work well together and by the results of their earlier mission, they were right.

Roberts was a natural leader and one of the highest ranking active field agents. He was a retired officer—a forced retirement from what Tommy told her, but the Native wouldn’t say any more. The old man was a cunning tactician and at the Academy he had a reputation of always remaining two steps in front of his opponents—he was a hard man to catch flat-footed. His heightened hearing and sight were uncanny. She heard a rumor his gifts manifested late in life—most received their gifts as teenagers, but not all. Adults that mutated usually went mad.

This was Pat’s second mission. Their first mission sounded simple and the Agency’s head, Senator Peterson, smiled during that briefing. Pat later understood that was his sign of having a private joke with Roberts.

Agents often described Peterson as the Agency’s biggest asshole and in her experience, it seemed like an accurate assessment. During that first briefing, Peterson failed to mention that the local schoolmistress was the leader of a mutant cult. A fact they had to discover for themselves—but only after they found themselves trapped inside the schoolhouse surrounded by a mob of angry cultists. Then from nowhere, Roberts produced sticks of dynamite and started tossing them out windows, blowing up the school and the cult. What sane person carried dynamite on his person? Roberts apparently.

As unpredictable as Roberts was, Tommy Red Hawk was unreadable. The big Native rarely spoke and showed little emotion. It was odd, the tracker always knew what Roberts wanted, seeming to have a nonverbal link with Roberts. He always knew what to do. I guess that’s what happens when you work with someone for that long.

Pat was the new person on the team and Roberts often referred to her as the ‘trainee.’ She didn’t mind as she had only known them both for a few weeks. Pat had hoped this case wouldn’t be as dangerous as investigating a school teacher but she didn’t hold much hope of that now. Chasing mutants into the wasteland was definitely going to be hazardous.

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