Survivor
Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
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do you know the Sarge? he stammered.
The man laughed. You could say that, he replied. I employ him.
Bas looked up at him.
Im Sheriddan, said the fat man. I own the public house on Megrum Street. You know, where your grandfather works at night.
It turned out that Sheriddan liked to talk. In the twenty-two minutes Bas spent with him that day, he learned more about his grandfather than he had in the weeks since he had come to this accursed place. And what he learned, he could never have guessed.
According to Sheriddan, the sour old bastard was an Imperial hero.
As he had promised himself, Bas ate a full can of processed grox meat, knowing he would need the strength and energy it would give him. Sitting in the bolthole closest to Salvation Square, he thought hard about how he would get the boy out of the cage. One of the orks had to be carrying a key. Which one? How would Bas get it?
He thought, too, about what to do once the cage door was open. The others
he couldnt look after them. Theyd have to fend for themselves. They were adults. They couldnt expect him to take the burden of their lives onto his shoulders. Such a thing was well beyond his power. It was too much to ask of him. Theyd have to make their own way. He would lead the boy out at speed, climbing up to the rooftops before the orks realised what was going on. Together, they could return to this bolthole without drawing attention.
Bas looked at the few cans of food remaining in the metal box at his feet. There were no labels on them, but he didnt suppose it mattered. Like himself, the tattooed boy would be glad of whatever food he could get. Together, they would eat well in celebration of their new friendship. Tomorrow, they could search out new supplies as a team.
With these thoughts buoying his spirit, Bas bedded down and tried to sleep, knowing he would need to be well rested for the dangers of the night ahead.
Darkness fell fast in Three Rivers, and this night the sky was clear and bright. Overhead, the planets three small moons glowed like spotlit pearls. The stars shone in all their glory. Had Bas deigned to look up, he might have noticed some of them moving inexplicably northwards, but he did not. His eyes were fixed on the scene below.
In the ruined plaza, ork cookfires burned by the dozen, surrounded by massive bodies turned orange by the flames. The majority of the brutes were drinking some kind of stinking, fermented liquid from barrels they had unloaded from their trucks. Others ripped hunks of roasted meat from bodies that turned on their spits. Bas didnt know what kind of meat the greenskins were cooking, but he could hear the fat pop and sizzle as the baking skin cracked and burned. Others still were barking at each other in their coarse tongue. Fights broke out sporadically, each ending in a fatality as the stronger hacked or bludgeoned the weaker to death.
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