The Last City of America by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

DON

Actually, he was everything but a soldier.

He walked along the runway. Not in the middle, not on the edge. The night smelled good. The cool air filled him, made him lighter. The moon was dim and the stars shone brightly. The galaxy tore clear across the sky. He kept his eyes to them as he wandered through his mind. Dawn was near. He had spent the night talking to a nerd. This was what his existence meant. Not the protocol or the indoctrinated respect, not the ‘sir’ that ended every sentence addressed to him. Not by a long shot.

He’d spilled all that to the nerd, hadn’t he?

A Conversation that lasted through the night was usually followed by a battle or a hangover. But there would be no battle-- not right away, at least. And there was beer to spare in the only bottle he touched that night.

Pain. Intense pain. To make pain stop.

The nerd… Harold… had started talking about things. Trying to keep the conversation going-- probably looking for more information than he deserved. He got into the place where he was from. Chicago. Rush. He talked about the experiments that went on there. It had made Don wonder, asked Harold how things worked at Rush before Grakus sacked it. The more details Harold gave, the more Don saw his own world in theirs.

Sometimes bad things had to be done.

When Don was a child, he fell from a tree. It hurt. He never realized how much that event would mean to him until years later… when he challenged his father. When he dueled him. When he killed him. Don loved his father. His father loved him. But Don’s legendary predecessor was taking his people no further. He was getting old, and Eglin’s success had nowhere to go but down. Young Don Masterson had to endure pain. He had to break his father’s heart. Put him down. His father didn’t even try to stop him.

Pain. It was the only way.

When he killed his father, watched him fall, his arm hurt-- even more than it did when the wood had actually pierced it. He knew that very moment what it meant. And that made the pain worse.

Setting broken bones in place was a painful process. But necessary. Critical. Unavoidable. Society had to be set in place. There had to be pain.

When he became leader of Eglin, Don sent men to the tribes and independent homeowners within a hundred miles, demanding they bow to him, to come into his kingdom. Most didn’t listen. They hated Eglin, hated Don’s father, hated the mercenaries. Don sent more men. He started killing. Still, the independents didn’t listen. Don killed again. The tribes rose up.

Once upon a time, a community of independent civilians occupied a town called Enterprise. They functioned as any of the cities did. Education. Commerce. Government. It was here where the rebellion against Don was organized.

The rebellion didn’t last long, and Don personally oversaw the razing of Enterprise, even carried out many of the killings himself.

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