Wastelands by Jack Porter

Author:Jack Porter [Porter, Jack]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-09T22:00:00+00:00

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I scanned the rest, but already knew the essentials. The one statistic that gave me pause was his age. According to my display, I had just murdered a boy of no more than fourteen years old.

Or maybe I hadn’t. Murder was too strong a word. I’d defended my traveling party against an approaching threat. And anyway, with so much non-human DNA in his system, he might have already been an adult.

Either way, it was very much a him or us situation, so I put it out of my mind and went to study the others.

They were much the same. Mostly human, but with large chunks of different animals thrown in. The categories that indicated a talent for magic or similar skill remained nonexistent, but when I wandered over to the remains of the rat thing Ash had killed, I was in for a minor surprise.

Though appearing to be more rat than anything else, it also had the DNA of a snake, and my AC lens showed that its bite was venomous.

Armed with that knowledge, I returned to Ash, who was watching me with muted curiosity. Once more, I tapped into the power of my lens and studied my oversized friend.

“Good fight,” she said, and it seemed that she was pleased. But my HUD reading, set to Thermal, was troubling. She was much warmer at the elbow wound than the rest of her body, and also at a bite on her leg as well.

“The wound on your arm,” I said. “That rat thing that bit you was poisonous.”

The huge, troll-like creature’s expression turned flat. “How bad?” she asked.

“I don’t know,” I replied.

I didn’t know what type of reaction to expect, but Ash surprised me. She simply accepted my words with a nod and turned toward Lady Gamma’s wagon.

“Lady Gamma?” she called. “Can you spare a moment?”

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