Christine Tane sits upright, shocked.
"You're going AFTER these bums?" she says. "They wiped out my whole bunch in a minute flat! How come we're not going as fast as we can in any direction AWAY from here!"
"Sky, tell me you're not on board with this!" she pleads.
Sky Masterson says, "Miss Tane: On the day when I left home to make my way in the world, my daddy took me to one side.
ReplyDelete'Son,' my daddy says to me, 'I am sorry I am not able to bankroll you to a large start, but not having the necessary lettuce to get you rolling, instead I'm going to stake you to two very valuable parcels of advice.
'One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken.
'Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear.
'But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider.'
And then he says to me:
'And there is a second fellow you will meet in your travels. For whatever reason he will find the idea in his head that you are a chump for a beating, and he will proceed to poke you in the snoot, counting on the fact that you will go down and stay down.
'But staying down is not the Masterson family trait. You are to rise up and clock the slugger until he goes down, either because he can get up but wisely chooses not to, or because he cannot get up, due to trauma of terminal conditions.
'Don't start nothing with no jaspers, but if they start it, you surely and truly finish it.'
"That was what he said, Miss Tane. And I figure this Impy gang is moved in on the turf of our beloved US of A, and must be put down like mad dogs, on account of there ain't no good odds to turning your back on a mad dog, lest he will surely bite you in an embarrassing situation."
Christine says:
Delete"Darn it, but you're right, Sky. We didn't want a war but we've got one. The only question now is who's going to win and who's going to lose."
She looks unhappy, and not especially resolute.
"I thought getting a Power would be a big change. Guess I got that one right! But I didn't know it would come with its own enemies ... I just thought now I had a leg up on the problems I already had."
She bites her lip.
"So if I'm going to be in this -- there's something else you ought to know..."
"Christine!" says Nick Voinovich from the rug, where Kaze is holding his head. "Don't -- God, my head! -- don't tell 'em nothing."
Janet looks at him with concern, "Don't tell us what?"
ReplyDelete(Moderator, is Nick part of the Grimmnor, or did was bring him in with Tane?)