Detective Trigger and the Legend's Farewell: Book Four by M.A. Owens

Author:M.A. Owens [Owens, M.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-02-27T22:00:00+00:00

13

There was a time, not long ago, that I thought anywhere in Adria was better than my rundown apartment in Black. Now, after the second night in a row of sleeping next to a dumpster in some nameless back alley, I was seriously rethinking that assumption. What I wouldn’t give to be waking up right about now, dry and warm in my old bed, with only some holes in the wall to worry about and the occasional stuck window. Instead, I was damp from head to toe and hadn’t changed clothes in days. The only way I could sneak up on someone now is if they’d somehow lost their sense of smell. Thankfully, the time for sneaking was over. Today, we’d have Saint’s backer, and the war of information would tip in our favor. A war we desperately had to win, or there’d be no winning the others.

“Finally deciding to stir, little dog?” Kerdy asked, poking me with her paw. “The sun’s been up for nearly an hour. I considered leaving you here.”

“Yeah, right. Sure you did. You’re the one who hired me, remember?”

“Yes, and today’s the big day, isn’t it? We walk into the trap I’m expecting, and I’ll bet Saul is there waiting. I’ll drag him out of this city one way or another, and we’ll go our separate ways,” she said.

“And what about my payment? That big favor you offered.”

“You’ll have it, but I have to get Saul out of the city first, unless you want him to keep blasting your friends.”

“Alright,” I said, holding up my paws. “You’re going to have to fill me in on this weapon. You keep mentioning it, but I’m going to need the details if there’s a chance this thing’s going to be pointed at us today.”

She sighed, leaning against the brick wall behind her. “It’s not appropriate for me to explain our technology to someone in this city, but… your request is reasonable. The weapon is a gun, but not the old, ignited powder, propel a metal projectile at thousands of feet per second type. This one is a lot more than that.”

I held up my paws again. “Okay, wait. Stop. Gun what now? Ignited powder metal projectile? Think you can dumb it down a bit more than that, if you don’t mind? Not looking for the engineering class here. We’ve got places to be.”

She clenched her teeth and looked for a moment like she wanted to claw me across the face. She probably did.

“It’s a paw-held weapon. He flips a switch, it charges. He can shoot a blast in the direction he points it by pulling a trigger with his finger. He can do this quickly, to create small blasts, or let it charge for a couple of minutes for a blast to blow the wall out of a brick building, or worse. It’s powered by the sun,” she said, as though I could believe any of this. But I did. I had to believe it, unbelievable as the whole thing was from top to bottom.

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