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them.
I frowned to demonstrate my disapproval of her unladylike analogy and gave thanks for the human sex drive. Assuming that our pursuers had called ahead, this pair had been
too busy to notice. I heard a shot.
Oh, that, Sasha said nonchalantly. I fired a round to get their attention.
Sasha seemed to be of the opinion that ammo grew on trees. I scowled at the guards and gestured towards a cargo module. Climb to the top and sit on your hands.
The man hurried to obey. The woman followed, and so did my eyes. My lust was rather short-lived, however, since the corpies chose that particular moment to arrive, firing as
they came. The fact that they were shooting at Sasha, and not at me, should have set some thoughts in motion but didn t.
Sasha brought her cannon up and squeezed the trigger. A rent-a-cop was plucked off his feet and thrown backwards into the crowd. I grabbed the girl s wrist with my left hand
and towed her towards the far end of the jetty. The .38 bucked and corpies dove for cover.
A man, hidden until now, appeared from our right. He wore mechanic s overalls and held a wrench in his hand. Sasha swung the .44 in his direction and pulled the trigger. The
hammer fell on an empty casing. I shot the man through the thigh and lectured Sasha as he fell. This ain t no movie, kid& you gotta count your rounds.
She looked ashamed, and it was then that I noticed the bloody footprints. Sasha had come down who knows how many stairs in her bare feet and cut them to shreds. All without
a whimper. I felt like the biggest sonofabitch in the world and wished I could take the comment back. Her attention was elsewhere. Maxon, look!
I looked in the direction of her pointing finger. The boat appeared to be about twenty-five feet long, had lots of lights, and, judging from the shape of its hull, had been designed
for speed rather than cargo capacity. Just the thing for harried executives or fugitives like ourselves. I shoved Sasha in that direction. Jump! I ll cast off.
You know how to drive one of these things?
Of course, I lied. Now jump. She jumped. The boat bobbed slightly as she landed.
I ran to the point where the forward line had been wrapped around a bollard, found that someone had used a double-reverse-something-or-other-knot to secure it, and swore as
my fingers strained to undo it. A rent-a-cop opened up with a submachine gun, and Sasha s words were nearly inaudible. I dumped the other line! Come on!
Bullets whipped past Sasha s head as I ran towards the boat, jumped the ever-widening gap, and tumbled into the cockpit. I was still sorting myself out when the starter whined,
the engine caught, and the boat surged forward. The bow hit the jetty a glancing blow, bounced off, and roared away. Corpies ran the length of the jetty. Fire flickered from the muzzles of
their guns as empty casings arced through the air. A piece of side glass shattered, tiny bits of fiberglass peppered my face, and an invisible hand tugged at my sleeve.
I fought my way forward, shouldered Sasha out of the way, and assumed control in time to avoid a head-on collision with a support column. She seemed happy to relinquish
command.
Someone fired a scope-mounted rifle. The windscreen shattered, and miniature geysers erupted all around us as he or she emptied a clip.
I didn t think of it then, but would eventually realize that the sniper could have hit me had he or she really wanted to, and had missed on purpose. Then we were gone, beyond
the range of the rifle, and hidden by almost total darkness. My heart beat a mile a minute as I remembered the columns that held everything up, searched for the right pictograph, and
flicked the appropriate switch.
The spotlights were mounted on a bar over the flying bridge. Some had been shot out, but a dozen or so remained. They illuminated a row of concrete pillars that marched off
into the distance and disturbed hundreds of bats. The miserable little bastards swooped down, sailed through the lights, and flapped away. An unexpected waterfall poured from above,
spattered across the bow, and ran the length of the boat. Drainage from the spaceport? A broken pipe? There was no way to know.
I looked back to where our wake broke white against concrete columns and the lights from the jetty seemed to wink off and on. I glanced at Sasha as I turned towards the bow. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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them.
I frowned to demonstrate my disapproval of her unladylike analogy and gave thanks for the human sex drive. Assuming that our pursuers had called ahead, this pair had been
too busy to notice. I heard a shot.
Oh, that, Sasha said nonchalantly. I fired a round to get their attention.
Sasha seemed to be of the opinion that ammo grew on trees. I scowled at the guards and gestured towards a cargo module. Climb to the top and sit on your hands.
The man hurried to obey. The woman followed, and so did my eyes. My lust was rather short-lived, however, since the corpies chose that particular moment to arrive, firing as
they came. The fact that they were shooting at Sasha, and not at me, should have set some thoughts in motion but didn t.
Sasha brought her cannon up and squeezed the trigger. A rent-a-cop was plucked off his feet and thrown backwards into the crowd. I grabbed the girl s wrist with my left hand
and towed her towards the far end of the jetty. The .38 bucked and corpies dove for cover.
A man, hidden until now, appeared from our right. He wore mechanic s overalls and held a wrench in his hand. Sasha swung the .44 in his direction and pulled the trigger. The
hammer fell on an empty casing. I shot the man through the thigh and lectured Sasha as he fell. This ain t no movie, kid& you gotta count your rounds.
She looked ashamed, and it was then that I noticed the bloody footprints. Sasha had come down who knows how many stairs in her bare feet and cut them to shreds. All without
a whimper. I felt like the biggest sonofabitch in the world and wished I could take the comment back. Her attention was elsewhere. Maxon, look!
I looked in the direction of her pointing finger. The boat appeared to be about twenty-five feet long, had lots of lights, and, judging from the shape of its hull, had been designed
for speed rather than cargo capacity. Just the thing for harried executives or fugitives like ourselves. I shoved Sasha in that direction. Jump! I ll cast off.
You know how to drive one of these things?
Of course, I lied. Now jump. She jumped. The boat bobbed slightly as she landed.
I ran to the point where the forward line had been wrapped around a bollard, found that someone had used a double-reverse-something-or-other-knot to secure it, and swore as
my fingers strained to undo it. A rent-a-cop opened up with a submachine gun, and Sasha s words were nearly inaudible. I dumped the other line! Come on!
Bullets whipped past Sasha s head as I ran towards the boat, jumped the ever-widening gap, and tumbled into the cockpit. I was still sorting myself out when the starter whined,
the engine caught, and the boat surged forward. The bow hit the jetty a glancing blow, bounced off, and roared away. Corpies ran the length of the jetty. Fire flickered from the muzzles of
their guns as empty casings arced through the air. A piece of side glass shattered, tiny bits of fiberglass peppered my face, and an invisible hand tugged at my sleeve.
I fought my way forward, shouldered Sasha out of the way, and assumed control in time to avoid a head-on collision with a support column. She seemed happy to relinquish
command.
Someone fired a scope-mounted rifle. The windscreen shattered, and miniature geysers erupted all around us as he or she emptied a clip.
I didn t think of it then, but would eventually realize that the sniper could have hit me had he or she really wanted to, and had missed on purpose. Then we were gone, beyond
the range of the rifle, and hidden by almost total darkness. My heart beat a mile a minute as I remembered the columns that held everything up, searched for the right pictograph, and
flicked the appropriate switch.
The spotlights were mounted on a bar over the flying bridge. Some had been shot out, but a dozen or so remained. They illuminated a row of concrete pillars that marched off
into the distance and disturbed hundreds of bats. The miserable little bastards swooped down, sailed through the lights, and flapped away. An unexpected waterfall poured from above,
spattered across the bow, and ran the length of the boat. Drainage from the spaceport? A broken pipe? There was no way to know.
I looked back to where our wake broke white against concrete columns and the lights from the jetty seemed to wink off and on. I glanced at Sasha as I turned towards the bow. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]