Souls of the Never by CJ Rutherford

Author:CJ Rutherford [Rutherford, CJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Belfast—Arming Up

Perri barely understood what was about to happen. The last two days had been a whirlwind of activity. Katheryne had been in and out of the Island, coordinating the plan to free Derren, while simultaneously preparing herself mentally for the attack on Sanctuary.

For that’s what this was, an attack into hostile, possibly…probably, deadly enemy territory. Katheryne and Krista had originally planned for it to just be the two of them who would join with Toshi and the others on Sanctuary, and Krista was still in a foul mood over Katheryne agreeing to let Perri come along, but then Krista hadn’t known Perri for years. She didn’t know how it would have been impossible to make her stay here, while her friends put themselves in danger. Katheryne realized after a few minutes that time unavailable to them would have been wasted in screaming arguments, and so had given in.

And although Krista made her feelings clear at every opportunity, it didn’t prevent her from teaching Perri to handle the weaponry she brought from their own apartment, where she and Derren had been staying while in Belfast.

A Liberi’s whole body was a weapon, a natural, killing machine honed to a knife edge of lethality, but Krista firmly believed in success through superior firepower.

So when she’d returned with what was literally an arsenal, Perri and Katheryne had gaped in amazement. There were knives, swords and other assorted bladed weapons, but Perri had been drawn to the more sophisticated array of projectile throwers, from darts, bows and crossbows all the way up through handguns, to what could only be some sort of energy weaponry.

Krista, to her credit, had been graciously surprised when Perri selected a compact metal handgun, pulled the slide back and ejected the clip, as she ensured the barrel and breech were clear, before reinserting the mag and making the weapon safe. Perri’s father was a member of the PSNI, but his job was a little riskier than most of his colleagues.

E4 was a subset of the Special Branch, so she’d been taught a healthy respect for handguns from the age of thirteen, when she’d first gone to the range with him. Perri still remembered the day in 2007 when her dad, Chris had shot dead a gunman who tried to kill her whole family, in a drive by shooting on the Ormeau road. She could still see the masked man, leaning out of the side of the white van with an assault rifle aimed at them, could still recall her father’s arm pushing her back behind the door as he drew his weapon. The staccato of automatic gunfire had been halted by a single shot, but not before three people had been shot, one fatally.

The police found the van burnt out a few hours later, and the next day a body turned up with Chris’s bullet in him. Perri found herself uprooted as all of them were relocated to the east coast of Scotland, to an idyllic town called Stonehaven.

E4 looked after its own, and over the next few weeks two more bodies surfaced.

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