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Axler,_James_-_Deathlands_56_-_Sunchild struggle and shit of everyday
Deathlands living, there was no guarantee they would want to share it. And if
there were more of them, with those laser blasters, then it would be a very
uneven firefight to get pulled into.
He knew Ryan better than almost anyone. He trusted him, both as a man and for
his tactical judgment. But even so, the Armorer's more suspicious and cautious
nature could see them getting themselves caught beyond a rock and a hard
place.
His train of thought was lost as the war party, straggling slightly but still
fairly compact, turned a corner and reached an old intersection he recognized
too well.
On the left was the old apartment building where they had stood on an upper
floor and observed the Sunchildren. Ahead of them stretched the road out of
the old ville. The two-lane blacktop was about an hour's march away, and on
the other side of it the ville of Samtvogel.
Say an hour and a half at their current pace. J.B. breathed in the hot air. It
was less humid now and would soon become dry. The heat would also be direct as
there would be no deflecting vegetation.
It was going to be tough. They would be exposed, and although there was no
chance of their being ambushed, it did mean that they would have to stand and
fight if a rival party advanced. There would be no cover.
Which was why an advance scouting party had been sent ahead.
J.B. wondered how they were faring. Obviously, there was no trouble as they
hadn't doubled back with a warning. But they had been in the heat a whole lot
longer.
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"EASY ON THE WATER, Whitey. We need it a lot more than you."
"Why?"
" 'Cause there's a whole lot more of us."
Ant creased up with laughter, Dee cackling and shaking his head, dreadlocks
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flying in the arid air.
"Man, you are one stupe mother," he gasped between the laughter. "Any fool
knows that us brothers got the skin for this rad-heat weather. Shit, we
already got tans. That was Mama's gift to us."
"Will you two shut the fuck up?" Blake yelled. "We're supposed to be an
advance scouting party, and here we are making enough fuckin' noise to drown
out a gaudy house."
"So who's yelling, man?" Ant asked in a mocking soft tone.
Blake narrowed his eyes. "They should have left you guys back at Raw. You're
still jolted out of your fuckin' skulls."
Dee smiled, his eyes sparkling with the chemical high. "True, my friend, true.
But that's kind of good in a way, you know? It means we won't give a fuck if
some mutie son of a bitch takes our legs away. Just keep fighting."
Jak sealed the canteen of water and returned it to the pouch that was slung
around his waist. Despite the heat, he had kept on his camou jacket,
protecting his white skin as much as possible from the searing sun. One of the
problems of
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Axler,_James_-_Deathlands_56_-_Sunchild his albino heritage was that he burned
easily, and in the cancerous sun of a postnuke atmosphere, he had to be
careful. Sunstroke was a minor thing, but it could get you chilled if you
weren't one hundred percent focused during a firefight. For the twins, it
wasn't a problem. Their dark skins were better adapted than Jak's to the sun,
the extra pigment giving them that fraction more protection. As for Blake, his
wizened and weathered brown skin was a testament to the number of patrols he
had undertaken in the sun.
The advance scouting party was four strong. Harvey had picked Ant and Dee
because they survived better in the sun, and because they were junkheads who
were still high on jolt. The powerful narcotic had a tendency to affect people
in different ways, perhaps because of the different and minute mutations that
had followed the period of skydark. In the case of the dreadlocked twins, it
acted as a stimulant to their senses, and dulled their perception of danger.
They were ready to fight.
Blake was one of Harvey's senior men. He had survived longer than anyone
except the sec chief himself, and had spent a long time in the desert regions.
He was the obvious party leader.
It was Blake who had insisted that Jak come with them. His admiration for
Jak's fighting skills, and the bond that had formed, told the experienced sec
man that
Jak's instincts, along with his own experience, would act as a perfect foil
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