Devil's Gun by Cat Rambo

Author:Cat Rambo [Rambo, Cat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Atlanta pinged Talon several times. When he didn’t answer the third time, she checked his location and made her way there. The location turned out to indeed be something that could be described as a bar and he, still in full human form, was half slumped in a seat, head resting on his hands as he stared at the table, an empty chair beside him as though someone had just left. The air here was damp and had a tinge of acrid smoke to it, as well as fiery wafts of alcohol.

He blinked blearily at her when she said his name.

“Time to go, I guess,” he said and gave her a halfhearted sneer, as though feeling that he needed to keep up his attitude.

“Past time,” she said, annoyed. “I pinged you three times! Did you even do any of your errands?”

He shrugged at her, not even bothering with excuses. “I was talking with a friend.”

“Who?”

He shrugged even more nonchalantly. “Some guy from another ship.”

She didn’t pay it much mind. Who cared if Talon struck up friendships? That sort of thing seemed easy for him.

The thing that irritated her was that he was sitting on his ass while she worked. How long was everyone going to continue tiptoeing around him, acting as though he might break at too loud a noise?

Yes, what had happened was terrible, but he couldn’t coast on it all his days. She’d been doing something new and hard and he could have made it so much easier. He knew how these matters worked, knew all the trading protocols that she kept having to look up.

She didn’t speak to him again all the way back, and he didn’t care. He’d had some leave coming, who cared if he’d used it? They had all been pushing and pushing him to do things and here he was doing something and getting handed a whole bunch of attitude from the newest, most useless crew member as a result.

Anyhow, he wanted to think. Gnarl’s words burned in his mind.

You could have him back.

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