Acoustic Shadows
“He was hunched over, framed in the doorway, grimacing, his pistol lying impotently about five feet away, holding his arm, clutching at a bloodstain that grew under his hand.
‘Millie,’ he called her, using the name she’d gone by her entire life, before becoming enmeshed with this den of snakes. She stood staring at him, her mouth agape as she still struggled with the realization that Moral was one of the bad guys. The gun felt hot in her hand, a faint wisp of smoke curling out its barrel. Sh...e raised it and pointed it at his head.
‘Millie,’ he repeated, pleading, ‘don’t … please … Millie! You’ve got it wrong!’ ‘Then why are you here?’ she screamed. She wanted to believe him, believe in him, or anything that could give her reassurance, make her feel not so alone. ‘With them?’ Moral sensed a glimmer of hope. Maybe he could bullshit her one more time. ‘I’m not with them. I tracked them here … you were right.MoreLess
‘Millie,’ he called her, using the name she’d gone by her entire life, before becoming enmeshed with this den of snakes. She stood staring at him, her mouth agape as she still struggled with the realization that Moral was one of the bad guys. The gun felt hot in her hand, a faint wisp of smoke curling out its barrel. Sh...e raised it and pointed it at his head.
‘Millie,’ he repeated, pleading, ‘don’t … please … Millie! You’ve got it wrong!’ ‘Then why are you here?’ she screamed. She wanted to believe him, believe in him, or anything that could give her reassurance, make her feel not so alone. ‘With them?’ Moral sensed a glimmer of hope. Maybe he could bullshit her one more time. ‘I’m not with them. I tracked them here … you were right.MoreLess
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