Demon Core: Part 10

Counter-Insurgency Against The Hyperreal

Part 1

Sestos popped a tab of Aella and downed it with an open can of Red Bull jammed into the center console. He made a face that suggested the drink had spent more time in the car than he assumed.

Hero’s knuckles turned white as she gripped the wheel. “It’s your plug, man. Is that really necessary?”

“They’re everywhere.” He said with a tone that landed somewhere between childhood awe and addict paranoia. He handed another pill to Leander. Hero sighed heavily.

They pulled off of main street and into a decaying corner of Bosque occupied by chain-link fences and pre-recession era Ford pickups nesting in dirt lawns. Hero parked on the curb and cranked the parking brake. She made some comment about keeping the two in line but it was too late, Sestos was up in the stratosphere.

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