Fireside by Brian Parker

Author:Brian Parker [Parker, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780692555200
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Publisher: Brian Parker
Published: 2015-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

The sound of his boots echoed across the old, yet clean, marble floor. When he’d arrived here all those years ago, Kendrick found his father’s palace in Austin in poor repair. After he’d killed that idiot, Captain Sanders, and took his rightful place as the leader of the Vultures, he made it his mission to clean up the inhabited parts of the city. Call it a lesson that he’d learned while he lived in San Angelo. If you let the garbage and filth build up, then disease was surely not far behind. It was a small point of pride for him that there hadn’t been a major outbreak of disease since he’d taken charge of the Vultures.

Not that he particularly cared for the residents of Austin. It was simple really, he needed an army to defeat Traxx and sick people couldn’t fight. The city of San Angelo was a fortress in every sense of the word. That bitch, Griffith, had taken her experiences in the Middle East and been involved in every step of the fortification process with old Ted. They’d collapsed the perimeter to a much smaller and defendable area that encircled the city, systematically removing the structures outside of the walls to give them greater stand-off distance. It had been years since he’d personally seen their progress; his observers had told him that everything was gone now.

Luckily, he’d been able to add a few special touches to a sizable portion of the southern section of the new wall. Once the Vultures were in sight of the walls, the alarm raised by the defenders would signal his man on the inside to start the fires. The heat would ignite the fuses on the dynamite and blow the wall apart. It wasn’t a fool-proof plan, but it was a pretty good one.

He’d waited his entire life for revenge. He’d pretended to be one of the San Angelians as a child for as long as he could stomach. Then he’d left without a trace and returned to Austin, declaring himself the rightful leader of the Vultures. Sure, he’d had to fight that fat, bloated bastard that had stepped in after his father died, but the man had been easy to defeat in hand-to-hand combat.

Two decades of subjugation under the oppressive Sanders had quickly brought the population over to his side. He introduced farming to the Austinites to offset their total reliance on the Vultures for food in exchange for their promise that at least one member from every family would join the fight when he called upon them. The people really had no choice except to agree to his terms once he stopped providing food for them. It was a win for him on two counts. He got to save the precious little pre-war food remaining and he was able to guarantee himself a full army while only employing a relatively small group of people full time.

Kendrick sighed as he stepped lightly up the stairs to his bedchamber on the third floor of the palace.

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