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Prologue
He stopped at the stop sign and looked both ways before turning left and accelerating the little car on the highway leading south, 250 kilometres to Campbell River. He had no time to waste. Barry looked down the long stretch of highway in front of him and sighed. He was sober, and that didn't happen often these days. Never, in fact. He made the trip alone. Tripping on a highway was part of an old modus operandi. He drank coffee from Petro-Can and smoked a joint so the car reeked. The little dark red compact was practically invisible as dusk was upon him. He kept it slightly over the speed limit. The road was dry. It had not rained today in the temperate rainforest. Traffic was sparse, practically non-existent, at twilight. He switched on his headlights but they did nothing to light the way at this moment except allow oncoming cars to see him.
She stood like a sprite on the side of the highway under street lights at the corner of Sayward Junction an hour into his journey. She looked hyperactive bouncing on her toes when he stopped. She continued to stand on the side of the highway, arm dutifully extended, as he skidded to the shoulder and reversed to pick her up. She stood beside her little bag of shit. He flung open the passenger door. She must be the stubborn type.
At last she appeared with a huge head of rust-coloured hair. She was short and trim and healthy-looking but weathered, tired in the eyes, as she glanced at him and shoved her bag in the back seat. She climbed in, clearly suffering in the cold autumn air. She was harrassed about Sayward, she said. She was sick and tired of being abused, she said. He didn't want to hear any sorry tales about Sayward. He wanted to talk about himself being a certified and bonifide Time Lord. It's according to his birthdate and how it fits in the Mayan Calendar. "And do you know what a Time Lord has to worry about?" "Not a fucking clue." "D-N-A," he said, with a snigger. They rolled toward the small mid-island city of Campbell River where he looked for the Oceanside Route, a branch of older island highway, to take them south along the Inside Passage.
She continued to share a few choice words about a recent experience in Sayward, kept calling herself a fucking jippo, whatever that is. Said jippos don't take no shit like that. Jippos move along. "And sometimes there's a trail of blood," she said, and cackled. Barry thought about DNA again.
He planned to stop in Black Creek, "Saratoga Beach, actually," to buy a large bag of weed. He said he's going to meet his friend Bob and have a few drinks so Barry asks politely if she would like to come along.
"Is he a Time Lord too?" she said.
He reached down between his legs and grabbed the flat side of a pipe wrench and swung in one motion heavily into her face. She screamed, of course, the women will do this, and he struck a lesser blow to the back of her head and wheeled the car to the shoulder of the highway with pipe wrench in hand. She slumped against the door. And she was out. Dropping the wrench he reached over and locked the door.
He stayed stopped beside the highway for a moment to help her slump further in the seat then pulled back onto the highway with a shoulder check. It was darker.
Safety first.
Título : The Time Lord
EAN : 9798215844441
Editorial : Mack McColl
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