Only In Death by Dan Abnett

Author:Dan Abnett [Abnett, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf

II

Daur’s gun was dry. He’d drained the entire cell with one long pull on the trigger. There was no one left alive in the support tunnel except him. The bodies of raiders lay all around him, including the bastard that had nearly taken Daur’s head off. He’d just experienced the most intense fifteen seconds of his life.

He shook himself out of his daze, ejected the clip and slammed in a fresh one. Gunfire rattled and cracked around adjacent halls and chambers. He moved forwards.

The tunnel joined a main hallway. That too was littered with bodies and fogged with smoke. The ugly, jumbled corpses were Ghosts and Blood Pact, side by side in death. Only in death, Daur thought.

He snapped around as figures appeared. He saw Meryn moving up the hall with men of his own company and some from Daur’s.

“Daur!”

“What’s the situation?”

“I was about to ask you that,” Meryn snapped. He was filthy and there were beads of blood across his cheek. “Where have you been?”

“Busy,” Daur replied.

“They’re coming up the fething walls,” Meryn said. “Rawne wants every man available to the gunboxes to keep them off. We’ve just cleared lower eight and nine.”

“All right. You keep moving that way. I’ll take anyone from G Company with me and head back to east seven.”

Meryn nodded. “See you in the happy place, Daur.”

Daur took his men back down the tunnel. They heard a flurry of rapid fire behind them. Meryn’s group had met something coming the other way.

Haller looked at Daur. They’d known each other for a lifetime, since their days in the ranks of the Vervun Primary. Daur understood what the look meant.

“We keep moving,” he told Haller. “They have to handle it.”

They emerged onto lower seven, a stretch of hall that connected a row of overlook casemates. Sounds of shooting rang out of each casemate hatchway. Peering into the first, Daur saw Ghosts at the slot, firing down at sharp angles.

“Spread out,” he told his men. “Go where you’re needed. Keep them out.”

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