Garran smiled and took a bow. “In the flesh. Nicely done, Liam.”
Liam removed the other piece of fruit from inside his shirt and tossed his wig onto the floor. “Thank you.”
“What do you want?” Gordon cried. “You can’t touch me! Evelyn and Adam both swore that no one would harm me!”
“You see, Liam, this is precisely why I never ask permission to do anything. It gets in the way of some of life’s most enjoyable activities.” Garran turned back to Gordon. “You hurt my friend’s sister and family, which hurt him, which in turn hurts me, and I simply cannot allow such a thing to go unpunished.”
Gordon retreated until his back fetched up against the corner of the room. “You buggered me in my goat ass, so we’re even!”
“You did what now?” Liam asked.
“It’s a hilarious story. I’ll tell it to you later. No, Gordon, we are far from even. You caused a lot of damage, hurt a lot of people, and you must suffer for each of them.”
Gordon dropped his sword and cowered in the corner, holding his hand out beseechingly. “Please, please don’t kill me!”
“Oh, I’m not going to kill you.”
Gordon lowered his hand. “You’re not? What are you going to do to me?”
Garran reached into a pouch on his belt and pulled out a strand of cubes about an inch square and spaced approximately two inches inch apart. He held one end of the string at shoulder height and let the other end clatter to the floor.
A sinister smile crept onto Garran’s face. “Are you familiar with ass beads?”
The End
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
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About the Author
Brock Deskins was born in a small town located in rural Oregon. At age twenty, he joined the army and served as an M1A1 tank crewman, dental specialist, and computer analyst. While in the military, he became an accomplished traveler, husband, and father of three wonderful children. His military career completed, he attended college to brush up on his skills as a computer analyst and gain new skills as a writer. Brock received his degree in computer networking and is devoting all of his time and limited attention span to writing.
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