Adrian's Undead Diary (Book 10): The Last Resort [Adrian's March, Part 2]
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Hauptman and Dustin visibly sagged, the adrenaline finally draining away.
“Looks like the trip out of town might need to wait a few days.”
Hauptman looked down at their friend. Judging by the way the Sotan medics were working, Waren would survive. “Nice shooting. Quick thinking.”
“Thank you.”
Melody approached, and put a hand on Dustin’s shoulder. “Will he be okay?”
“Think so,” Dustin said with some worry. “We stabilized him. It’s a through and through. Nicked the top of a lung maybe.”
“That’s terrible. Who did this? Why?”
Melody slid up against Dustin in a way that showed her affection, but didn’t cross the line into PDA. Decorum had to be maintained, after all.
“Anti-Expansionists,” Hauptman said and looked over at the crowbar-wielding bait that drew them into the attack. The man had bled out and died during the fight. Hauptman regretted he wouldn’t be able to interrogate him.
“Fucking terrorists,” Melody spat. “Idiots think that by killing people on the moons, they’ll prevent us from going to the new planet and having people die there. So much for us being the children of Ghara, one and all. Why do people never change?”
“Because we’re people,” Dustin said. People who kill each other, thought Dustin. People like me, apparently. Guess that’s a part of what I signed up for.
“Well, look at the bright side,” Melody said, looking down at the man Hauptman shot.
“What bright side?” Hauptman asked her.
“There won’t be anything on the new world worse than us, right?”
Dustin hoped she was right.
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CHRIS PHILBROOK is the creator and author of Adrian’s Undead Diary as well as the fantasy series Elmoryn and Tesser: A Dragon Among Us.
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Book Four: The Failed Coward — Book Five: Wrath
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