Epilogue

Epilogue

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I couldn’t help the smug grin as Gomorrah drove the Fury around the Black Bear Mining Corporation’s headquarters, then found a spot to land.

There were people in the spot Gomorrah chose. A few soldiers sitting on crates and chatting. At least until they saw the car coming down, and started to drag things out of Gomorrah’s way.

“The job’s not done,” Gomorrah said as she pulled on some lever-thing in the middle of the dash with a satisfying clunk. I think that put the car in park or something. I needed to take a bit and learn how to drive one day.

“This is the boring part,” Cause Player said from where he was squeezed in the backseat. He opened the door and contorted his way out.

“What bit?” I asked.

“Where we ask the corporation some difficult questions about why their maps didn’t match up exactly, and where we debrief the army about what to expect,” Gomorrah said.

I felt my grin fading a little. “Can I take the third option?” I asked.

“We also need to do a quick patrol of the town, but I think Cause Player’s already trying to be the one to do that,” Gomorrah added.

“Can’t we just go home and rejoice in our huge winnings?”

“Come on, out of the car, you whiner.”

I laughed as I stepped out of the Fury then stood up and stretched. The day was turning to evening pretty quickly. I wasn’t sure how much time we’d spent underground, but I was pretty happy that we weren’t under there anymore. Open air felt great.

“Do you want to take care of the army, or the corp?” Gomorrah asked.

“Can’t our AI do both?”

The nun shrugged. “They can help, but having someone there does a lot more to help.”

“We didn’t need to do any of this last time,” I said.

“Last time, we were both still just small fry. There were other, more impo– wait.”

I paused in my stretching and turned around to see that Gomorrah was staring at the ground, a patch that had nothing of interest on it.

“You okay?” I asked.

She raised a hand in a ‘one moment’ gesture.