Across the Sand

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Vic remembered the first time she wanted to kill a man. And not in the playful way that kids say “I’ll kill you” to a friend who wrongs them, but in the way that you dwell on, plan, and finally decide to take a human life. To end them forever.

It changes you, when you find that line in the sand. It changes you more when you cross it.

The men who held her down in her mother’s brothel lit an ember in Vic, and she didn’t feel bad about what happened to them after. Just as she wasn’t going to feel bad for this city of monsters who had tortured her people for as long as anyone could remember.

Vic came a long way to get revenge for the men who leveled Springston, who brought down the great wall, where she’d grown up as a kid. She came a long way to pay back those men for trying to blow up Low-Pub, the only other place she’d ever felt at home. She’d walked across No Man’s Land with an atomic bomb on her back, a device she’d been told could be set off just by giving it a tight squeeze.

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