Outlier_Reign Of Madness by Daryl Banner

Author:Daryl Banner [Banner, Daryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Frozenfyre Publishing
Published: 2016-12-28T22:00:00+00:00

0187 Arrow

“Good as new, isn’t it?”

Arrow nods wordlessly, letting some of his weight down on the bad leg. The bandage is wrapped tight about his thigh, giving him a spring to his every other step.

“Keep your weight off it for a few days,” the healer suggests, his buzzed-short grey hair in addition to his wormy face making him look like a prickly cactus from the dry gardens. “Keep on your bum. Two sunrises, I think you’ll be good to walk on it. Aye?”

Arrow nods, then grunts a quiet, “Thanks,” before departing the house.

The celebration that was supposed to welcome the Lessers back home has gone on for a day and a half now. No one seems to mind much, considering the amount of laughter and levity that rings down the streets. Despite Arrow’s greatest efforts to try and shield himself from letting in the merriment, it finds a place in his heart anyway and makes him feel light. He won’t dare show it on his face, but he can privately feel the mild, floating joy within him.

“Try these,” says Prat drunkenly when Arrow meets him in the middle of the street where a table full of communal finger foods has been erected. It’s a platter of what appears to be berry paste on tiny leaves. “There’s alcohol in the paste,” Prat whispers. “The distilleries in the tenth are at our disposal. Nothing’s being sent to the Lifted City. Arrow. All that spare stock … all of that’s the slum’s, now!” He hiccups and then laughs in Arrow’s face for no reason, which is both annoying and unsettling at once.

“It’s true,” mumbles Lionis.

Arrow glances up. He hadn’t noticed Lionis lurking on the other side of the table chewing a berry paste leaf with a deadpan stare. Lionis’s cheek is still bruised pretty bad, having shifted to a more purplish color as it slowly and agonizingly heals. He wonders if the brothers always fought like that and if Lionis is used to carrying a bruise or two.

“Hi,” says Arrow flatly. “Is this what it’s always like out here in the ninth?”

“No.” Lionis glances at the squatty house behind him, his greasy face shining in the light from a nearby fire pit. “Wick and Athan have been in that bedroom for days, it feels like.” He shakes his head and rolls his eyes. “Didn’t realize it just takes a dick in your mouth to make you forget about everything important in life. Like rescuing a city from a Mad King.”

Prat’s eyes are glassy as he pops another treat into his mouth. “You don’t think love is important?”

Lionis appears to want to respond hatefully to Prat’s question, judging from the irritated roll of his eyes, but then he seems to reconsider. He gives it an honest thought. “I … guess it is. I just never took my brother to be much of a lover.”

“Everyone’s a lover!” Prat exclaims ecstatically. “Arrow loves his charms. I love my maps, yes I do. Wick loves Athan’s dick. You love your brain so much you’d fuck it if you could.

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