Mega 5: Murder Island by Jake Bible

Author:Jake Bible [Bible, Jake]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2016-09-11T04:00:00+00:00

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“Can I join you?” Nivia asked, her head appearing over the railing of the crow’s nest where Lucy was set, covering the beach with her sniper rifle. “I asked Popeye if I could help him and he only growled at me that I’d be in the way. The captain, what’s his name? Lake? He wasn’t much better.”

“No,” Lucy said, her eye to her scope as she scanned the beach and the tree line, coming back to center on where Team Grendel had entered the jungle. That was her reference point. The odds were small that the team would exit from that same spot, but it gave her a place to center on, to return her scope to after each sweep of her rifle.

“What?” Nivia asked, shocked by the answer. “What do you mean, no?”

“I’m working and I can’t have the distraction,” Lucy said. “Sorry.”

“You were pretty nice last night,” Nivia said. “Today you’re just like the rest.”

“Not quite,” Lucy said. “You see how I’m on the ship and they’re on the island? I’m not like the rest. I don’t have anywhere near the training they do. I can shoot, but that’s about it. I get in the shit and I get hurt. Every fucking time.”

“Hurt how?” Nivia asked, climbing over the railing and taking a seat next to Lucy despite the woman’s objection. “Have you been shot?”

“Plenty of times,” Lucy said. “I’m a bullet magnet, as the team likes to say.”

“Team Grendel?” Nivia asked. “What’s that all about? Why Grendel?”

“Ballantine likes ancient Anglo-Saxon legends or something,” Lucy said. “The ship is named the Beowulf III.”

“Three? What happened to the first two ships?” Nivia asked.

“We don’t talk about that,” Lucy said. She sighed and glanced away from her scope for a second. “Listen, you want to help?”

“Yeah, sure,” Nivia said.

“Then you can be my spotter,” Lucy said. “You know what that is?”

“No,” Nivia said.

“It’s someone that helps me with distance and wind speed and the other variables that go into being a sniper,” Lucy said.

“Okay, what do I do?” Nivia asked.

“You go down below deck to the Toyshop,” Lucy said. “Find Ingrid and ask her for a spotter scope.”

“Spotter scope,” Nivia repeated.

“If Ingrid isn’t there, then ask Moshi,” Lucy said. “She doesn’t talk much, so don’t expect a conversation. You can ask Carlos, but he’ll just give you a ton of hell. If he does, then tell him to call me on the com so I can chew his ass out.”

“He’s the jerk everyone hates?” Nivia responded.

“Hate is a strong word,” Lucy said. “Seriously dislikes. He has his good points too, but mostly he’s a jerk, so yeah, if he gives you any grief, tell him to call me.”

“Do I get a com also?” Nivia asked.

“No,” Lucy said. “Thorne won’t like that. You can be my spotter, but I can’t have you on the com.”

“Even on mute?” Nivia asked.

“Even on mute,” Lucy said. “No debate.”

“Okay,” Nivia said. “At least I’ll have something to do.”

“Get some water and sunscreen,” Lucy said. “We’re going to be out here all day.

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