The Flash Gold Boxed Set, Chronicles I-III by Lindsay Buroker

Author:Lindsay Buroker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy, steampunk, historical fantasy, adventure fantasy, guns and sorcery, emperors edge, flash gold
Publisher: Lindsay Buroker

Epilogue

Kali lined the crosshairs up with the man-shaped target tacked to the wall of her workshop. This was going to make a mess. She ought to test the device outside, but she did not want to explain it to passersby. More people were streaming into Dawson every day, and it was hard to walk out the door without tripping over someone.

Her finger found the trigger, and she tapped it. The weapon responded perfectly. A chunk of potato shot from the broad wooden barrel, sailing across the workshop until it thudded into the neck of her target.

“Spud to the jugular.” Kali lowered the weapon. “Embarrassing way to go.”

Her front door creaked open, and Cedar ducked inside. Milos, she reminded herself, determined to start calling him by his real name.

Clean-shaven and dressed in a nice button-down shirt, he strolled toward her. He gave the SAB a pat on the way by—it had taken her an entire day to fix it up so she could bring it home—and halted when he spotted the potato launcher.

“You made one?” A grin split his face as he reached out to touch it. “I didn’t truly expect you to… Can I try it?”

“Of course. You didn’t think I’d make something so silly for myself, did you?” Kali put it in his hands and grabbed the other half of her potato. “It’s like an old muzzle loader. You stuff your ammo in through the barrel. It’s bladed so it’ll shave your spud down if it’s too big. Then you need to crank that lever a few times. It pumps air into the large-volume chamber where it builds up pressure. When you pull the trigger, that controls the dump valve and…” A concerned furrow creased Cedar’s brow so she stopped the explanation, pumped the lever, and pointed. “Just pull the trigger.”

“I may not be bright enough for this one,” he said dryly.

“No, no, you knew about the lodestone, and you set a still to blow up in about thirty seconds. I don’t even know how you did that. You’re smart.”

His eyebrows flew up. “Did you just compliment me?”

“Er, maybe.”

“Huh.”

Cedar pointed the spud gun, but did not fire right away. He met her eyes. “I just saw Bosomhall limping up the street, his arm in a sling.”

“Oh,” Kali said, not certain how she felt.

She had wondered if he made it out alive. On the one hand, she did not hate anyone enough to wish death on a person. On the other hand…it would have been better for her if Sebastian had never returned from the wilderness. Before, greed had motivated him to strike at her. Now, revenge might add extra…color to his plans for her.

“I thought you should know,” Cedar said.

“Yes, thank you.” Kali pushed aside her worries for another time. “Are you going to try that thing, or not?”

“Yes, ma’am.”

He lifted it, aimed, and fired. The potato chunk soared across the workshop and took the target in the eye. It was amazing that someone so tall, muscular, and battle-hardened could grin like a school boy, but he managed it.

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