Redeye (The Wonderland Cycle Book 2) by Michael Shean

Author:Michael Shean
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Dystopia, sci-fi, Science Fiction, future, cyberpunk, Wonderland
ISBN: 9781620072349
Publisher: Curiosity Quills Press
Published: 2013-04-12T06:00:00+00:00

They took the machine gun off the Highwayman, along with the medical supplies. Mason was a pretty damned good medical tech – Bobbi supposed you had to be if you were recon – and he worked over her leg with stims and stabilizers and whatever battlefield alchemy there was that let her walk without fucking things up too much in the long term. “You’ll need to see a doctor,” he told her. “Eventually. Got some nerve damage in there, nothing that shouldn’t be repairable, but considering the situation you’re lucky the damned thing works at all.” She had a nasty cut on her head that he healed up with medicated quick-seal gel as well, and she spent a while picking gravel out of her cheek while Mason tended to her leg.

Bobbi stared at him as he applied the patches and injections, all done under Scalli’s distant but watchful eye. Diana had been so certain that he would kill her. He could do it now, reach up and make it look like complications from an accident. But he didn’t, not even when Violet had her back turned or was otherwise engaged – and when Violet left to get her truck she finally spoke up.

“Diana tried to kill me,” Bobbi said.

“I said I know,” Mason said as he wrapped a securing bandage around a small forest of dermal patches adhered to her thigh. He didn’t look up.

“She said that you were going to kill Scalli, too.”

Mason paused in mid-wrap. He didn’t say anything for a moment. “I was going to,” he said then, and went back to work. “She asked me to do it. She was always asking me to do things for her— she never asked me to kill anybody before, though. She saw the same thing that I did in Marcus, here.”

Bobbi looked up at Scalli, who stood a bit away from them like an angry, well-armed djinn. He was guarding the breach. He carried the machine gun now, rigging up a shoulder strap out of one of the electric truck’s seatbelts. He hadn’t taken off the visor since he had returned with Mason. He knew that though he wasn’t near them, he was watching through its eye. “What about him?”

“That he’s corporate, or at least used to be. She told me he was a Genefex infiltrator, that she’d found his ID when they were screwing around last night.” Bobbi heard an unmistakable spur of anger in his voice, and she felt bad for him. Diana really had gotten her hooks in him good, and she had turned out to be the very beast that she had convinced him Scalli was. “So I waited until we went into the grocery, and then I shot him. Twice.”

Bobbi looked up at Scalli again; he hadn’t attempted to hide the blast in his gut, nor had he explained anything yet. After all, he’d told her to ask Mason. “Well he’s not dead,” she said. “And you’re not a bad shot.”

“Best shot,” said Mason, “next to your friend there.

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