Defiance by Bear Ross

Author:Bear Ross [Ross, Bear]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2019-10-15T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Eight

SIXTH GATE ZONE

SERAPH’S ALC-SOAK BAR AND GRILL

“Mammals,” Skreeb said, watching the semi-dramatic silliness unfold in front of him at the bar. The Shasarr cyborg watched the human female limp out of the bar, followed by her orange primate companion. At the table next to him and his partner, Velsh, a raucous party of factory workers laughed and crowed as one of their number returned to them, embarrassed and forlorn.

Skreeb didn’t see what the problem was. Shasarr courtships often utilized weaponry and death threats. Such simple creatures, he thought.

At the table the two beings shared, his Skevvian partner contemplated the slow-rising bubbles in a bottle of purple fluid in front of him. Skreeb Fourth-Hatched, the Shasarr cyborg, took a deep puff off of the vaporizer embedded in his arm, blowing the cloud of chemical exhaust up into intakes in the ceiling.

“Ready to do this thing, Velsh?” the enhanced reptilian asked his tentacled table mate.

“One more shot, Skreeb, then we'll do it,” the Skevvian answered, his tone flat and sullen. “I still gotta pull the aircar around, and I keep thinking the Headhunter's going to pop out of nowhere and add us to his wall. I'm tellin' ya, I don't like this part of town one bit.”

“Cheer up, Velshie,” Skreeb said. “We've been in this place for hours, and the Headhunter ain't shown his big red self, yet, him or his Niner boys. Finish your drink, and we'll snatch up the boss’s little Niff.”

The Skevvian wrapped one set of tentacles around the bottle and its purple contents, pouring the carbonated syrup into a smaller glass. He tilted the shot back, letting it flow into his open beak. He shivered as the poisons hit his nervous system, then slammed the glass back on to the table.

“Okay, Skreeb. Let's do it,” the being said.

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