‘Not yet,’ I replied, running a cloth through the barrel of my Magnum. ‘Still got another one to do after this.’ It was late evening and we were sitting cross-legged on the floor of one of Pa’s underground storerooms cleaning our weapons and sorting out ammunition supplies. Although faced with an...
The area was alive with night noises – rustlings and snufflings, screeches and hooting night birds. I tried not to think about it. Denzil had come this way alone to meet us and he wasn’t worried, so I shouldn’t be either. The clouds thinned to let a haze of milky moonlight through and I could sca...
‘You two alright?’ she asks. I nod. ‘You’re brother and sister are you?’ ‘Yeah. Our mum and dad were killed a few months back, by raiders.’ Luc feeds her the cover story we worked out earlier. ‘Oh, you poor things.’ She sits down and gives us a sympathetic smile. ‘Where are you staying?’ ‘Well, w...