Sorry this took so long to get posted.
CHAPTER NINETY
Alarm klaxons blared in the walls around him, and with bounty hunter reflexes Urchyn McAvi threw himself into a dodge roll, coming back up with Slig rifle in hand. But there was no enemy within sight, unless he counted the Sligs that wandered down the hallway on patrol duty. He had no love for the mechanically-enhanced enforcers; neither did they enjoy the presence of a Wolvark bounty hunter inside the royal palace.
McAvi snorted, as he lowered his gun. A royal palace for a king who had lost his throne to a Gabbit.
That was another thing McAvi had come to hate: beings who thought they knew more than they should. That Gabbit – the Bringer of Pain, as he had introduced himself – knew little of the ways of the world, but seemed to know much of power.
Stranger, the great Steef who had destroyed Sekto Springs Dam – McAvi’s old workplace – did know a lot of things, however. Which was the only reason why McAvi had invited Stranger along on his hunt for Abe, a hunt that had come to fruition.
The gates of the palace loomed up ahead – tall and threatening in the light shining from behind it –
And standing not ten feet away from him, growling and baring his teeth in a particularly demonic way, was the Steef himself.
“Hello, McAvi,” Stranger snarled.
McAvi did not raise his gun, just in case the Steef was not hostile, but by all appearances the big bounty hunter was about to attack. “What do you want, Stranger?” he asked –
Stranger’s answer was a roar and a mad leap through the air.
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