The Last Legion: Book One of the Last Legion Series by Chris Bunch

Author:Chris Bunch [Bunch, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Science Fiction, cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents, Military
ISBN: 9781440553622
Publisher: Prologue Books
Published: 2012-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

23

“Well, Mary dipped in creosote,” Njangu Yoshitaro exclaimed. “Just who do you know … or blow?”

“Rather attractive, ain’t it?” Garvin said, smugly admiring the two stripes of a finf on his sleeve. “Nice to see that Strike Force Lit Twit is finally recognizing its best.”

“Talk to me, little white brother,” Njangu growled. “Or I’ll smite the living hell outa thee.”

Nganju whistled when Garvin told him about Celidon, had him stop the story, found Petr, and had Garvin start all over.

“Oh boy,” Kipchak said. “So Redruth’s got big eyes for Cumbre, eh? It sure never shits, but it pours all right. Musth to the front of us, ’Raum to the left, Redruth’s bullies to the right, and frigging nobody to cover our young rears. Oh dear, oh dear, oh my spectacles and gloves.”

“I got a question, Garvin,” Nganju said. “Everybody’s bustin’ ass getting ready to go to the field to haunt the wild ’Raum, and you’ve got time to flaunt your newly striped young butt around. In a word, howcum?”

“Six hours off, reward from Alt Wu, my lovable and never sufficiently blessed platoon leader. With permission to honk into civilization for those six hours.”

“But you had to come all the way to I&R to rub it in on your ex-best friend, eh?”

Garvin’s smile vanished. He looked pointedly at Petr, who inclined his head in understanding. “Private business, eh? Thanks for coming by and telling me, Garvin. I always need something new to brood about.” Petr went back into the squad bay.

“ ’Kay,” Yoshitaro said. “What’s whupping?”

“Wanted to ask you about options.”

“What sort?”

“The sort that we don’t appear to have, Njangu. Look. I joined the army because … because things were getting a little interesting. I figured I’d give it an honest straight shot, get out after one term, and have those certain problems half a goddamned galaxy away.”

“And I joined because a judge was going to fry my brain otherwise. How come you’ve always been so close-mouthed about what happened?”

“That doesn’t matter right now … and stick to the subject, dammit. Anyway. I never figured I’d end up out back of God’s behind, and I sure as hell didn’t plan on the goddamned Confederation doing a vanishing act on me,” Garvin said.

“Nor me,” Njangu confessed. “I was sort of hoping to get a nice soft assignment somewhere close to Centrum where I could shuffle stage right at the proper moment and continue doing what I was doing before. Except this time without getting caught. Or, if I couldn’t manage that, like you, finishing one term and having a clean record to counterbalance future villainies.

“It looks, now that you brought it up,” he went on, “like both of us are a little light on controlling what comes next. If that’s what you meant by options.”

“It was,” Garvin said. “You got any brilliant ideas?”

“Mmmh,” Yoshitaro said. “We stick around here, somebody’s liable to blow our silly fool heads down around our butts.”

“Right.”

“Things don’t appear like they’re going to get any more peaceful, either,” he said.

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