Three Axes to Fall by Sam Sykes

Author:Sam Sykes [SYKES, SAM]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2022-12-06T00:00:00+00:00

I wasn’t there when it happened.

But I was told, later.

I was told that the square was peaceful. And then suddenly, that nice little tea shop exploded. The windows blasted out into a spray of shards, left behind jagged wounds. The door flew off, impaled itself in a nearby wall. The sign spun wildly into the air and landed on a nice old man’s lunch through his roof three blocks over. The walls of the teahouse bulged out. A small river of steaming brown liquid poured from beneath the doorway and down the steps.

Rudu was there. Along with every Ashmouth that had been pretending to be a civilian. And all of them looked up, stunned and silent, as the dust began to settle.

I remember the next part, because I was there for it.

I came walking out of the teahouse, shards of shattered pots crunching beneath my feet. The Cacophony hung limply from one of my hands, steam peeling from his grinning maw. The box intended for him hung in the other. It fell from my hands, clattered upon the stones.

I reached up a hand, wiped the remains of Necla’s skull from my face, my chest, my belly.

I flicked gore upon the earth, looked over the crowd.

“Deal’s off,” I said.

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