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Wasteland Tales #24

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“Revenge is yours,” says Lizard. She hadn't seen him, knew he was there anyway. She’d forbidden him to help, but couldn't stop him from watching. “Congratulations.” His voice is utterly flat. Sarcasm, sincerity- who knew?
She grunts into her ventilator.
“You feel better now that they’re dead?”
She doesn't answer. She doesn't know. Emotions churn inside her, a dizzying, kaleidoscopic swirl.
“No,” she says, at last, and knows it for the truth.
“No?”
“There’s others like them. Psychos. Someone has to stop them.”
He nods. “Ready to leave, Elise?”
“Call me Witch. They did.”
They set out into the darkness.

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    Jonathan Mills over 9 years ago

    Added the name Elise to several of the older parts of the series. I liked to more or less use only pronouns like she and he to refer to characters at first until they "earn" names later in the story, then I thought this would be confusing, so added them. This isn't the last part of the series - this is actually about halfway through what I'd planned to be an introduction to the main story - but will likely be a hiatus while I work out details for the other two main characters - currently known as Reaper and Prophet.

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