Mated to the Beast of the Wasteland novel · Chapter 30 of 32
Chapter 30: Sentences
Sable was standing by the pump with white paint up to her elbows.
She saw me looking and didn't even pretend.
"He held it nine hours," I said. "From the road to sunrise."
"I know."
"So why three?"
"Because three hours is funnier." She grinned at the board. "Three minutes, start to finish. Remember? I'm fixing my mistake in public."
I laughed until I had to sit on the trough.
Brand woke up in the medic's container at noon, stitched in two places.
The first thing he asked was who'd painted the board.
The second thing he asked was whether it could be painted bigger.
The trial sat eight days later, in the square, under the gold.
The Gate officer presided. Gate law, he said, was the only law left standing between here and the coast.
Twelve sat on the jury, on two benches by the pump.
Six from Haven, six from the Wasteland. The schoolteacher. The old salvage man. The east-row mother whose kids had been in the snare.
Half of Haven's survivors stood in the square. The rest stood on the walls.
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