Ascension to the Lost Throne novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: North Pass
The first truck reached the narrows at noon, and the Compact let it come.
Jude stood on a boulder above the road with a rifle at his shoulder and the tall rider at his side.
Every rider in the valley lined the walls behind him, and so did a hundred people who had never held a rifle in their lives.
Cooks fed magazines.
A gatekeeper carried crates of rounds up the slope on his back.
The boy with the stable fork had traded it for a bolt-action rifle.
He lay very still behind a rock with his lip between his teeth.
Marina had set her aid post under an overhang at the rear.
She stood in the mouth of it with blood to her elbows and her sleeves rolled, looking up at the boulder.
He raised a hand.
She nodded once.
"Now," Jude said.
Every rifle on the walls fired at once.
The lead truck stopped.
The one behind it rear-ended it, and the one behind that swerved into the ditch, spilling men onto the road.
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