James Robert Smith by The Living End

Author:The Living End [End, The Living]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2012-06-01T13:08:46+00:00

“They want a hundred and fifty permanent men-at-arms.”

“They didn’t say ‘men-at-arms’, did they?” Schiff smiled in the dark.

“Yeah, I think someone said that. Stockman? Not sure, right now.”

“Stockman? Really? I figured he was through with that kind of thing.”

“What do you mean, ‘through’?”

The air was still now except for the rocking of the two chairs. Children were all in their homes. Voices were all muffled by four walls. “You know as well as I do that he’s former military. Sure, he’s never confessed to just what he was in the real world, but he reeks of it. I can’t say what rank he was, but it was at least a Captain. Probably higher. For all I know, he was a fucking general.”

“Well, I never bugged him about it. All I know is that he’s against Sparta having anything like a regular army or police force. He thinks we should stick with rotating the job out with people the way it is. Everyone serving two or three weeks at a pop as a trooper.”

“Well, it’s all moot, now. After what that bastard from City of Ruth pulled. I just hope no one tries to kill the little weasel when he shows up again in a few weeks.”

“No. We discussed that. We’re going to confront him, and depending on what kind of reaction we get we may bar him from entering Sparta again. They’ll have to pick someone else to barter with us if he’s a hard-ass about it.” Dr. Wein stretched, felt his joints creak and his spine crackle with mild pain.

“What else? What kind of changes are we going to see?”

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