Judges_When the Light Lay Still by Charles J. Eskew

Author:Charles J. Eskew [Eskew, Charles J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Science Fiction, General, Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic
ISBN: 9781786181206
Google: CwyDDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07MM5SMTJ
Publisher: Abaddon Books
Published: 2019-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

“YOU’RE WELCOME. NOT that you thought to thank me. You really don’t see it, do you? Of course, I know what you were working on, Kettle. You have to do everything in the light, don’t you? You can’t just, oh, I don’t know, use a little goddamned subterfuge every now and again?” He was almost yelling. I wasn’t afraid, not of him—not of you, Colin—but I was fucking confused. You’d clear that up, though, wouldn’t you?

“Where is my son, Colin?”

“Our son, and, hey, can I just finish? Elijah is fine, he is safe, and you’ll be holding him… five minutes after I’m done speaking with you. Just chill the fuck down for a moment.”

You motherfucking cocksweating taint-faced speck of shit-covered navel lint, I would have said, Colin, just so you know.

In the moment, however, I raised my hands up, tightly closing my lips, and waited while you dangled our boy out there like bait.

“Thank you. You throw the word ‘sociopath’ around a lot, Kettle. Like, I’m not the one who sat here and tried to shoot someone’s face off, jus’ sayin.”

“It wasn’t loaded.”

“Well, just not for you, but—you know what? Moving. Along. I know how kidnapping would make you look, Kettle. That was the whole point.”

“What?”

“You’ve pissed off a looot of people. People that I need to work with, for instance. They don’t know about us—not yet, anyway, though I’m sure they will soon. You posted the video on YouTube, for fucksakes, from your account!” He laughed thinly and watched me for a moment, as if waiting for me to work out what the hell he was getting at, but I only stared. Why make it easy for him?

“I didn’t ask for any of this, Kettle. I just wanted to build. I lost everything, you saw me lose everything, and you still wanted to tell yourself we could win by their rules. Or maybe you wanted to play like we’re not all running around on borrowed time. The Brotherhood I’ve created reaches further than anyone realises. It may have got a bit out of hand in the whole… black power thing.” Colin threw up a weak fist for a moment and became the only person laughing in the room.

“You’re starting a war, a literal race war, and you… you… just—just wrap this up, dude.” I shook my head all the way down into the palm of my hand.

“I’m brilliant, Kettle. I defined brilliant, and I was stripped of everything, because some list of names told the world I was a threat? I was put here, though, wasn’t I? They put me here, and now they are hurrying to work with me, to put an end to their ‘thug’ problem. The quickest way to do that, of course, is have them blow each other all to hell. That’s just a bonus, though; this is a lot more precise than that. There are targets: troublemakers, loudmouth preachers, idealistic officers, and not to mention now two Judges to add to the list. Oh, also, funny enough, a five-figure salaried civil attorney who moonlights as a political activist.

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