Dandelion by Blaze Ward

Author:Blaze Ward
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781644703571
Publisher: Knotted Road Press

Scene Nine

Wyatt sat on a trunk and ogled the pile of ammunition boxes. Maybe in an obscene way, but he wasn’t about to deny a certain lust at how many paychecks that many bullets represented. Or the number of things he could blow up, if he decided to spend a week extracting gunpowder and melting the brass down for an art installation or something.

Boom.

BOOM!!!!!!!

He chuckled.

A shadow chuckled nearby.

Wyatt’s head snapped around hard.

Brianna.

The killer, and he didn’t use that term loosely.

’fore he’d met her, Wyatt had always considered himself in the elite for armed deadliness.

Brianna McLaren was a whole other level above him that he’d never encountered in any of his time doing…things.

She moved from near the stairs to slip silently onto his trunk next to him, only the fabric of her pretty, teal dress making any sound.

Nifty perfume. Lilacs, maybe.

Medium-sized woman in the model of Lorastir perfection. Almost a statue he was afraid to breathe too heavy around, except that she could kick his ass up and down the block and probably not even break a sweat doing it.

Wyatt nodded. She nodded back.

They sat and watched the ammunition pile like two lumps on a log looking at a campfire.

“Power,” she observed after a bit.

About when it might be time to chuck another log on the fire. Maybe break out the fixings for s’mores.

“Boom,” he repeated. Verbally this time.

“Should we conquer a world?” she asked.

Wyatt considered it.

Him, her, Laney, and Tessa were probably enough. Fin and Constanz brought the brains. Auntie fixed shit.

Of course they’d put Abigail in charge.

“What would we do with it?” he countered. “Sounds like a lot of work, just to make a bunch of people angry at us and cause all manner of ruckus. Even shooting people gets dull and draining eventually.”

“Would you trust someone else holding those reins?” she pressed.

“They do that now,” Wyatt reminded her. “Most of ’em aren’t all that bad. And you can shoot the really bad ones. Problem is they’re all kinda bad to begin with.”

“How would you fix it?” Brianna asked, still staring into the depths of that fire and listening to the crackle of damp wood.

“Best I suppose you could do would be round up a group of like-minded folks and disappear off somewhere quiet,” he shrugged, smelling the smoke on the breeze. “That Julian fellow. He has some interesting ideas. Bit of an armchair revolutionary, but got the brains to maybe pull it off. Still need hammers to push the nails back into the wood.”

“Start a new colony?” Brianna asked, finally turning to look up at him.

Long legs, short torso. Wyatt was a head and then some taller than her, sitting like this.

Almost made him feel like the adult here, but he knew better. Last person on this crew that should be in charge of anything that didn’t involve bullets going downrange.

“Lots of people have tried,” he offered. “At least a few have succeeded. Lacot, for instance, got at least far enough to be a place. Dunno what happened to it after that.

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