"So we're just leaving?" Elly's voice was like that of a child being told to leave a toy behind. They had been driving up the ruins of a highway that was marked by signs indicating it was the 5.
"That's the plan, pretty sure killing an Erep officer is against the law, and I also need something from up north." The highway was mostly in tact, which was surprising considering the war and the fauna, it was probably helped by survivors using the road as a way up north, and so it was still being maintained as much as people with small arms and crude tools can maintain a roadway.
"You didn't even give those votan's a chance to thank you."
"They wouldn't have thanked me, it was my fault they were strung up in the first place."
"Come on Xan you can't blame yourself for Cobb, he would have killed those people if not for you."
"You don't know that, I just know that because he thought he could play a sick game those people almost died. I need to stop running from my past Elly, I need to confront it, and put a bullet through it's stupid smug Castithan head."
"You make that sound like your past has a name."
"It does, he was my owner in my past life in the Votanis Collective, and he's the one running those mercs." There was a pile of stone in the road way and Xanthiana had to swerve roughly out of the road to avoid.
"So why are we going up north if the person you need to kill is back where we left?"
"Because I left something up here I'm going to need down there, I told myself I wouldn't use it anymore, but clearly I was wrong." The road up north was going to get rough, last time Xanthiana was up there it was even worse off than where she'd come from, but hard or not she had to retrieve her rifle and then she'd make sure to bring the sons of schtako down.
"Where are we going?"
"To the sight of a massacre, my first one." She gunned the engine and drove on in silence, the little EGO device only piping up to suggest alternative routes.
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