Half-body

 This was written to my Trope Bingo prompt “Half-body.”  This was an art prompt, but I am not a visual artist….  I don’t believe that this 1,405 word piece happens in an existing world.  I hope that you enjoy it.

Athan Rednough had almost died the Saturday that Cheg Nudwhich and his gang raided the Grey Tower Gold reserve.  Theoretically, the Grey Tower was impregnable.  Unless you distracted a lot of resources.  So Nudwhich had provided a lot of distraction.  To do that, he'd delegated.  One of his delegations had been to a group that was ideologically opposed to the drilling of the inter-metro underground trainline along the route of the old Argo Street between Port Aran and Dalekirk.  When the bomb with its shaped explosive charge and seismic-activated trigger system had gone off, it had dropped thirty metres of rock on top of the drilling machine Athan had been controlling.

 

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