Nocturna League- Season One Box Set by Kell Inkston

Author:Kell Inkston [Inkston, Kell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-04-09T22:00:00+00:00

“Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before; advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.” - Aristophanes

The Point of No Return

This longer story of The Nocturna and her crew begins familiarly enough. Colette and Dunks are sparring in the ship’s small, gray gymnasium, with an appearance that lends equal parts to an athletic complex and a prison cell both.

Colette, soaring with momentum, slides across a wall and pushes off to aim another hit. Dunklestein is just standing, one arm at his hip and the other with a pint of lager.

“How about this?” Colette flies forward with trained, acrobatic poise, her fist raised high to grand-slam her opponent.

Dunklestein only needs to raise his leg to intercept her and impact her speed against his knee. “How about what?” he asks as Colette buckles over in pain. With a desperate rebound, she tosses onto her back and shoots a foot in-between his legs. Again Dunklestein only needs to move his knee to the side to block the hit and follow up by weighing his foot down on her leg, locking her in place. Colette kicks with her other leg again and again, but it seems like nothing can move him. Dunks crosses his arms with a smile as he watches Colette flex up, wrap her arms around his leg and attempt to move it that way.

“You’re…” Colette hisses. “You’re too fat, Dunks! Dammit!” She falls back to the plush floor, exhausted after ten straight minutes of this maddening exertion.

Dunklestein shrugs as he takes a gulp of his beer. “I’m not sure how much this is helping.”

“What?” She says between pants.

“I mean, this: our sparring. It helped you alright for a little while. You’ve gotten way better at fighting and you’re as fast n’ strong as most any man on board, but you’re just about at your limit, I reckon.” He takes his foot off her.

With a burst of energy, she shoots back up to her feet. “No! Not even close to it! Come on, another round!”

Dunks shakes his head. “I can’t be standin’ around hours each day kicking your pa’toosh, kiddo. I actually do have a job on the ship, and you seem to have gotten to a point where you can’t get any better.”

Colette tightens up in exasperation. “Don’t do this to me, Dunks. I’m trusting you… The Captain’s trusting you to do your job training me!”

“Yeah, but some of the boys on board have been getting a little rowdy when I’ve been gone.”

“The Captain can take care of them.”

He takes another sip. “He’s way busier than either us, kip. All that nonsensical stuff he wastes his time with from day to day is actually saving our lives without us knowing it.”

“Yeah, so what do you mean to say?”

Dunklestein finishes his pint, places it aside and addresses her. “He can’t be bothered with petty trouble like whatever-” he raises his hands to make quotations, “degenerate activity the other jobbers are getting themselves into.

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