Year of the Orphan by Daniel Findlay

Author:Daniel Findlay
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781628729948
Publisher: Arcade
Published: 2019-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

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The System were changin, Block could feel it all around him. Them council fellas was takin over and them weak admen was scrapin an bendin to get summa the gold and food an protection they was promisin. Aint nowun but Karra ever seen them Ghosts what kilt the old healerman but the thought of em was bad enough and all over the System fellas goin missin and the cry of Ghost ringin out, an peeps bled out in their beds an it seemed like evry other day a scav werent comin back. Out there on the sand you could nearenough navigate by the bones of them what hadnt made it. There were no denyin the Ghosts was real and gettin more bold. Just sum happy luck that it all fit real nice with the bald bastards plans. Moren more of em was movin into the cinder digs an towers that sat astride the concrete cross in the middle of the System. The girl what had worked for the Old Man was missin too. Sum of his lads had seen her headin inta the tyre towers and rubbish heaps weeks before and nowun seen her since.

Block were scoutin, he’d enough young fellas an lasses standin with him now that it were time they had a place to gather an lay their heads an if anywun was askin they was just bandin together strong to stand against the Ghosts an fucken slavers. Block were layin plans he dint hope to never see the end of. Placin yungens here an there, workin em into the trades. Coupla cando men an he were sorry for em but it were gunna pay wun day. It were a hard game but there it were. Couldnt tell evrywun evrythin, hadta keep the long game movin on. Whatd them books say? Chess an checkers an all them good things. Yeah he got a soft heart for sum things gone he reckoned. Bigger worries on his mind now though. Needed digs for his lads. The rubbish heaps was too dangerous he reckoned, too many blind corners and places where a fella could get all filled in. Besides, them what lived there werent gunna take too kindly to him declarin himself lorda the dump. Nah, the Stacks was gunna be on his side when they saw he meant em no harm. He’d heard the rumours about them what lived there an he werent bothered so long as they wanted to live along with him an his. What he wanted was a place that were right out in the open, close to the Centre as he could find, sumwhere where what he was doin could carry on in plain sight. An what exactly was he doin? He’d puzzled on that wun for a long time but he figgered the answer he gave himself years ago was probly still right. He was gunna sit atop this pile and all his fellas with him and that were that. Make his own safe, close the blocks, and then send peeps out lookin for others.

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