Mistress of Death by Piers Anthony

Author:Piers Anthony
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media

He nodded, and gave me her address. “And accept a gift from me,” he added, bringing out a bundle of cloth. “I suspect you will find it useful on occasion.”

It was a battered old army armored vest, not even oriental. Mildew coated it. Nonplused, I accepted.

CHAPTER 9

ENCOUNTER

It was a ghetto neighborhood with very few white faces.

The streets were littered with garbage, showing the “benign” neglect of the Caucasian city fathers; collections were evidently irregular and rare. There were whole rows of abandoned buildings, and sometimes complete city blocks stood empty. Many of the boarded houses had been broken into, and stripped of everything sellable; they were glassless husks. Some had been gutted by fire. Slogans were painted on the walls: Viva Che, Long Live the Panthers, Kill Whitey. There were some abandoned cars on the streets, stripped of everything including tires.

There was life here, though. Garishly painted prostitutes paraded outside bright bars; they had tight dresses, high leather boots, miniskirts, and wigs of all colors. One gave me the eye as I drove by; I lacked the nerve to meet her bold gaze. A group of children watched one child twirling a nunchaku. That disgusted me; such weapons were hardly toys, as my own experience documented.

Several people carried carved African walking sticks, useful for self-defense. Others walked huge dogs. Evidences of a violent neighborhood, exactly the kind Kobi Chija had described. It gave me a feeling of deja vu, of having been here before.

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