Cataclysm: Rystar and the LASSOs Book Three by Jack Archer

Author:Jack Archer [Archer, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tarina Anthologies
Published: 2021-07-05T22:00:00+00:00

Cobalt waited for her near the airlock, gun in hand, as he handed it to her.

“Going to need it this time,” he muttered, shoving his own in the back of his jeans and throwing on his signature fur-lined coat as Rystar pulled her own leather one on. She took the gun from Cobalt, taking in his jasper eyes and clean-cut brown hair before ensuring the safety was on and sticking it in its holster.

“Like the haircut,” she commented, waiting for the airlock to open and depressurize. Cobalt grunted, and she cast a side glance at him. The sides and back had been almost completely shaved down while the top remained long and flipped over to one side. His beard was scraggly, and he scratched at it before heading out of the airlock and down the causeway, Rystar close in his wake.

She caught up to his side and matched his step. “So where are we heading today, Torlick?”

“Jeraro,” he replied, taking them down the main corridor of Sluirossi towards the shuttles.

“The farms?” she asked.

“Yes,” he said.

Brick. Fucking. Wall.

“Where you from, Cobalt?” she asked as they approached the shuttles and entered the queue. The next one was half an hour away, so they settled on a bench to wait. Cobalt’s face flushed, and he leaned forward, elbows on his knees. “Come on, we’ve been flying together for a couple months now. I’d like to get to know you.”

It seemed to pain Cobalt to talk, but eventually, he sat back, arms splayed out across the back of the bench, and sighed. “Braluria, like Kyran. Hometown Diaroch, few hours from Inebus.”

Rystar’s eyes widened, happy to get more than three words out of the guy. She stayed silent, hoping he would go on, and he did.

“Kyran found me in Inebus as a soldier,” he continued. “But the war was over. I had nothing to do.”

“What war?” she blurted out, eager to know more about him.

“Atrex War of Painger,” he explained, “almost 200 years ago. Fighting stopped, bad feelings lingered. Left the service and began bounty hunting. That’s how Kyran found me.”

“Why did you go with him?” Rystar asked, and Cobalt shrugged, twisting his head to watch the shuttle pull into the station and begin to let its passengers off.

“He promised me the stars,” Cobalt answered as they both left the bench and joined the queue for the shuttle. “And I’ve always wanted to see them.”

Rystar smiled, remembering the first time she had seen the stars in her LASSO. Normally, she refrained from using the term ‘magical,’ but breaking the atmosphere and seeing deep space for the first time had been the most magical experience of her life. She would go with anyone if they could give her that again.

They boarded the shuttle and sat together somewhere in the middle, staring out of the window as it pulled away from the station and into the snowstorm outside. It took nearly an hour for them to reach Jeraro Farms. During the ride, Rystar tried to find out as much about the bounty as she could.

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