Thunderbird's War: Cuyahoga River Riders (Super Science Showcase Stories #3) by Lee Fanning

Author:Lee Fanning
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wonder Mill Cosmos
Published: 2022-06-02T00:00:00+00:00

POWWWWW!!!

The pistol rings out, blasting through the bird, killing it. Thunderbird steps up from her crouch by the nearside of the cave, where she’d jumped her horse and doubled back to wait for a close shot that, even mostly dead, she couldn’t miss. She was a good shot, after all.

She returns to the cave. She removes her mask—again Rebecca—and wraps it tightly around the naked babe. She caresses its smooth head.

This child did deserve to be with her family. And she was about to be.

They’re in Richmond before the next day’s dawn. She finds the child’s uncle, and the babe’s no longer an orphan.

Rebecca stays in the hospital for two weeks, en route to a full recovery. Though the babe had left with her uncle some days ago, word from the nurses was she, too, would survive. Her uncle promised, they said, that the child would one day hear about Thunderbird, the warrior who had saved her.

Rebecca’s missed her window to regroup with the other Riders at Fort Henry, but she knows the protocol for a missed rendezvous—head back home. It’s a three-day ride, and as she mounts her horse to leave, she’s stopped by a militia man, offering a parchment from the Office of General Anthony Wayne—one of George Washington’s most trusted generals in the Continental Army:

“Thank you for your correspondence. Can confirm that Corporal Gavin St. Claire is alive and still honorably fighting for the patriot cause. He sends warm thoughts to his sister Rebecca.”

And for the next three days, Thunderbird—Rebecca—dreams of the end of the war, and seeing her brother again.

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