The Mutineer's Daughter by Chris Kennedy & Thomas A. Mays

Author:Chris Kennedy & Thomas A. Mays [Kennedy, Chris & Mays, Thomas A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Theogony Books
Published: 2018-03-26T22:00:00+00:00

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A rattling noise woke her, and she struggled to remember where she was and why she was being squashed. She opened one eye—the other seemed to be glued shut—and she remembered. Warehouse. Dead man lying on her. She pushed the corpse off and crab-walked to the right. The wall and an object on the floor stopped her.

She picked up the object; it was her pistol, but she didn’t remember dropping it.

The rattling sounded again. Someone was trying to get in. Not someone, her friends. She looked at the pistol and flipped the safety on before putting it in her holster, then she struggled to her feet and walked drunkenly to the door. Weird. Someone had put a crate in front of it. She paused to look at the crate in confusion, and the rattling sounded again. “Mio!” a voice called. “Let us in!”

Oh. They wanted in. She pulled the crate out of the way, but no one came in. “Come in,” she called.

“It’s locked,” the same voice said. She recognized the voice. Dan.

She turned the lock on the door and tried the handle. It didn’t work. Silly Dan, the door hadn’t been locked. She turned the lock back off and tried the handle. Now the door was unlocked, but it was bolted. She turned the bolt lever and was almost knocked over as a group of men rushed into the warehouse.

“Mio!” Dan exclaimed. “You’re alive! We thought something had happened to you.” He held her in front of him, both hands on her shoulders. A glimmer of light from outside reflected from her chest, and Dan recognized the sticky feel under one of his hands. “You’re bleeding!” he exclaimed. “Where are you hit?”

“I don’t think I’m hit,” Mio replied. Some of the cobwebs in her head seemed to be clearing. “At least I don’t remember being shot.”

“I’ve got a dead Turd over here,” one of the men called.

“Yeah, shot him,” Mio mumbled. “Then he ran my head into the crates.”

Dan felt the back of her head. “Yeah, there’s a big knot there. You’ve probably got a concussion.” He sat her down by the door. “Stay there,” he said. “Everyone else, let’s get what we came for as quickly as possible.” He looked at his watch. “There are going to be random patrols soon; we need to get out of here.”

Mio watched as the men took boxes and crates to the truck, seemingly at twice their normal speed, including one man she recognized. “Hi Diego,” she called.

“Shhhhh,” he replied. “Keep your voice down!”

“Right,” she said. “We don’t want anyone to know I like you.”

He looked confused but continued out the door with the box he was carrying.

The men continued taking things outside and Mio smiled at them as they passed her. They looked like ants, scurrying about.

“Okay,” Dan said, magically appeared in front of her. “Time to go.”

“Time to go where?” Mio asked.

Dan lifted her to her feet. “Home,” he said.

“I like home,” Mio agreed. She took a step toward Dan and collapsed.

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