Hurley's Heroes Collection 2015-2020 by Kameron Hurley

Author:Kameron Hurley [Hurley, Kameron]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kameron Hurley
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

They pounded down the stairs and through the common room, startling the last of the patrons and making the tavern keeper yell. “You should all be in bed anyway!” Nyx yelled at them, and wondered where the fuck that came from. In bed or not here, for sure. This was a shitty place to be.

Nyx went out with her scattergun first, firing before she even saw anything. Preventative measures tended to be useful in these types of situations. The bakkie wasn’t far—the lights from the tavern shone on the front end—and the parrots hadn’t circled around the front yet.

“Go, go!” Nyx said to the others.

Kasib tried to get in the driver’s seat, but Nyx pushed her out of the way. “I drive,” Nyx said. “You shoot.”

Nyx slammed the door, and put her scattergun on the seat next to her. The flock of parrots reeled around; there must have been thousands of them. Nyx said, “Everybody in?” but didn’t check to see that they were before she hit the juice and blasted out of there.

The parrots flocked the bakkie, obscuring her view. Nyx snapped on the lights and turned on the wipers. Kasib hung out the passenger side, firing. Eli and Mahir lolled out the back two windows with their own guns blazing. A swarm of hornets swept across the hood of the bakkie, which meant Ada was in play now, too. At least Nyx didn’t have to give them directions once the shit hit.

Nyx drove until she hit the crossroads with the main southern artery they had come up on, and just kept feeding juice to the bugs for all the fucking bakkie was worth. It wasn’t her bakkie. If the bug cistern overpopulated and burst, that wasn’t her problem until a lot later, if she lived to see later at all. What she needed now was speed.

She could make out the road if she concentrated on the thin stretches of it she could see through over the flapping wings and soaring bodies of the parrots. Then one of the parrots started morphing right there on the hood, throwing off streamers of mucus as its wings elongated and its beak shortened and it began to take on its human form. The thing grabbed at the edge of the window with its wing-fingers. Kasib shot it in its half-shifted face, and the thing rolled off the hood and onto the road.

Nyx yelled at them to keep an eye out for a farm compound, but they all seemed too busy to pay much mind to anything but the shooting. She peered out both sides as best she could as half-shifted parrots kept peeling away from the bakkie. The ride up in the cat-pulled cart had taken a lot longer, and she knew she was making good time in the bakkie. They would be on it any—

The green eye of the top of the contagion sensor careened past.

Nyx jammed on the brakes, taking the bakkie into a full spin. Eli screeched and nearly fell out of the bakkie.

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