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staggered backwards, waving her arms, screaming in torment as her blue
cotton jump suit combusted and her skin fried. He took a stride closer,
sweeping the nozzle up and down, directing the blistering flames from her
head to her feet. Her hair was on fire. He watched her fall to her knees, her
movements becoming weaker and weaker, and he poured on the flames,
relishing the sight of her charred features, of her gaping, blackened lips.
She pitched onto her face, her body ablaze, convulsing for several
moments before lying still. He let up on the Fryer and stared at her
smoldering corpse as the rain quickly extinguished his handiwork. "Stupid
bitch," he muttered, and pivoted, scrutinizing the trees. Now where was
the brat?




Chapter One

"I'm tired of all this blamed walkin'," remarked the blond man in
buckskins.
 "Quit your griping," said the giant.

"I'm not gripin'," the man in buckskins responded. "I'm simply makin' a
point."

"Which is?" the giant asked.

"That we should find a buggy somewhere and borrow it," suggested the
one in buckskins. His long blond hair complemented his sweeping
moustache of the same color. Around his waist were strapped a pair of
Colt Python revolvers, and over his left shoulder was slung an Uzi.

The third member of their party, a small, wiry man dressed all in black,
glanced at the man in buckskins. "Borrow it? You mean steal it."

"Call it what you want, Rikki," the blond man said, "we need a vehicle.
At the rate we're going, we won't reach the Home for a year."

The one in black nodded. His hair and eyes were both dark. An Uzi was
over his right shoulder, and slanted under his black belt, aligned over his
left hip, was a long, black scabbard containing his prized katana. "I agree
we need a vehicle. But do we have the right to steal one?"

"Out here," the blond man commented, patting his Pythons, "might
makes right."

Rikki's eyes narrowed. "You would take a vehicle at gunpoint, Hickok?"

"If need be," Hickok replied.

"Warriors should not stoop to stealing," Rikki commented.