Supplejack by Les Petersen

Author:Les Petersen [Petersen, Les]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Les Petersen
Published: 2017-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“God, what a mess that was.” I was jogging beside Shotgun who seemed to be made of steel. Even though my ankle was strapped tightly, it hurt like all of God’s anger was being aimed at one small area of my body. Mind you, I wasn’t going to admit it hurt and I didn’t have time to complain. We’d kept up a dogtrot for the last hour and a half – cutting straight south toward Marne River, Shotgun maintaining a pace through the bush that had my legs burning and my throat dry. He looked as fresh as the day he was spawned. Proto-man if I have ever seen one. “And that Sam…is she always such a hard-hearted bitch – I thought she was a real good looker as a librarian.”

Shotgun chortled. I was using the red light from my holoface to light our way and with it swaying with each step, when I looked at him, his beard appeared like fire around his face. “Yeah, she’s a surprise that one,” he said. “Ex-military. SAS. You wouldn’t know it, would you?”

I stumbled a bit. “Jeezus Bloody Christ. SAS. I didn’t think they took women.”

“Have for twenty years. Tough nuts.”

“Nuts. Yeah. I felt like my nuts were two inches away from steel every time she looked at me.” A thought intruded on the image of her reloading her pistol. “Was she ever…?”

“A man?” He laughed. “Nope. She’s pure hellcat and as cool as ice when it comes to laying down lead. And if you ask me, she wouldn’t want to be anything other than a woman.” He laughed a little more. “Geez, that’s a good one. Two inches…heh heh. You ever get that close to her, your nuts wouldn’t be the only thing she’d cut out.” Again, he laughed.

My macho side surfaced. “Yeah, well, if we ever meet again I’d still like to see if she had a feminine side. She’d be into leather whips and iron chains, no doubt.”

“With spikes.” He chuckled.

“How would you ask a woman like that out? Christ, you wouldn’t want to make the mistake of taking her parking! And a restaurant wouldn’t be any good ‘because she’d use a knife to split the bill, would she? Still, there’s something about her. Maybe that’s why male praying mantises chase their partners: nothing like a nibble on the neck for excitement.”

We slowed and walked for twenty minutes, sharing ribald jokes that made us feel like men and brought us a little closer. While we walked Sansan gave me a read out of known military movements and I was relieved to see that no further move had been made against Haven. The Press had renewed activity around the area and GaZe patched one report through to me of a cholera epidemic that had broken out in the Nildottie area. Gilamens was there in her studio giving everyone the story, showing how the military was called in to help contain the outbreak and warning of the brutal results of unclean living.

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