by Jason Cheek
“Why didn’t you put it that way in the first place,” Kasey said more enthusiastically, as Julie rolled her eyes and began counting back from one hundred. By the time she’d gotten to eighty-eight, she was calm enough to be able to pitch her voice into a cheerful tone.
“Because then, we couldn’t have had this wonderful chat together,” Julie sarcastically said, before her voice turned to steel as she switched over to the general raid chat. “Now let’s move out people, I want us in Darom by tomorrow evening at the latest!”
As Julie watched her raid leaders head out to rejoin their separate groups, she silently shook her head not understanding how Star was moving his forces around the map so quickly. It should have taken him at least a day to reach Telrain from Darom … possibly two once you included the two thousand or so NPCs he was leading. So how had he gotten his forces to Telrain in less than a day? Julie silently fumed as she shook out her long, dirty blonde hair and tied it up in a ponytail. She was about to head to the front of the formation, when she noticed Sodonon standing silently next to her.
“So what’s the real reason you want to take this asshole out?” Sodonon asked under her breath. Seeing the angry look that immediately came to Julie’s face, she hurriedly held up her hands in a placating gesture to stop her friend’s nasty retort. “Look, I’m not trying to be an asshole here, I’m just trying to understand what’s really going on.”
“Thanks, Sodo,” Julie said, visibly relaxing at her friend’s words. In a hushed tone, she quickly explained that this was her ex-boyfriend and some of the more personal reasons why she hated the guy. Coming to the end of her short story, Julie earnestly looked into her assassin friend’s eyes. “Mostly though, the asshole thought he’d break up with me and not have to suffer the consequences!”
“Well, in that case, he definitely needs to suffer!” Sodonon readily agreed, as a dark smile came to her lips. “Don’t worry girl, I’ve got your back!”
“Thanks, Sodo, I knew I could count on you!” Julie said, as they laughingly bumped fists and headed to the front of the raid while making plans for the coming fight.