The Afterblight Chronicles: Death Got No Mercy by Al Ewing

Author:Al Ewing [Ewing, Al]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Abaddon Books
Published: 2011-03-13T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The Doc

"See, what I'm trying to say is that the motivating force in the universe is Love. It's that simple. Everything is defined by its capability to feel Love, and it follows that Love is the highest emotion because it's the thing that defines us as a species. And it follows from that that it's our duty, as a species, to rise to that highest definition and become a species motivated by Love. So we should be judged on how much we Love one another. It's like Doc Clearly says - within each of us lies the potential to become the balance of the universe. You get what I mean, Mister Cade?" The blond kid paused, sucking on the reefer he'd lit a minute ago.

Cade nodded, then looked at Fuel-Air. Fuel-Air grinned and shook his head slowly. He was back in his utilities, holding a reefer like the blond kid - Ted, Cade thought he was called. Cade raised an eyebrow, wondering what Fuel-Air made of all this talk. He'd been a similar age to these kids when he'd died. Maybe he'd talked like that once.

Shit, dog, I'd have said anything if there was a blowjob involved.

The redhead lifted her head - Cade had to wonder if it was a reaction to what Fuel-Air had said - cradling Ted absently while she spoke. "It's not just a sexual thing either, although I do resent the implication made by the previous society that sex for mutual pleasure has to be somehow inferior to sex that's been labelled as something 'deeper' -" Ted's balls flopped down in their sac as she made the finger quotes. "- anyway, what we've achieved is Love shared by an entire community, and offered to anyone who comes to us, as well as the natural world around us that was neglected so badly by the previous society." Having made her point, she went back to what she'd been doing before, taking Ted in her mouth and bobbing her head slowly up and down, her fingers squeezing lightly. Cade looked back at Fuel-Air for want of anywhere else to look. He still hadn't quite figured out what the etiquette was for this, and while they'd forgiven him for killing the dog - and by extension the skinny kid - he didn't want to ruffle any feathers. He still felt a little guilty, which was odd for Cade.

Fuel-Air just grinned.

The brunette - Thelma, was it? - chimed in from the driver's seat. "We even Love the cannibals and that weird religious sect up to the north, although obviously we have to love them from a distance, seeing as they're, um... well, they don't exactly Love us, if you see what I mean. But any who come by, we welcome with open arms. We've had a couple from the north, and once they saw how nice things were for us, they stuck around. I think they were maybe a little repressed. The cannibals, though - Jeepers! They're the opposite!"

"The cannibals are the ultimate 'me-first-and-screw-the-other-guy' society.

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