I Don't Feel Lucky!

"You both are very lucky, we normally execute prisoners." It would make sense of course that if they were being lead by Oshujon he would use his former methods of dealing with law breakers for dealing with prisoners. The truck driver thought it would be helpful to mention this to us as some kind of cheering up after being detained.

"I feel lucky, don't you feel lucky Slats?"

"Extremely lucky." We were seated in the back of a truck that ordinarily probably carried troops, on either side of us were armed guards.

"Whatever you idiots, when we rule this land you'll come to appreciate this kindness."

"You've been stuck on this beach how long? I'm just saying if you guys are going to be ruling anything it'll be a pock marked beach full of your own dead." It seemed like a fair assessment of the situation as best I knew it. Which of course prompted the guard on my right to hit me in the eye, people love being reminded of their failures, ask my non existent girlfriends.

"I thought that was a fair assessment Trezlan." Slats offered his condolences, when they popped him in the eye he didn't appear hurt, I remember at the time writing it off that he was just a tough guy, I was of course wrong.

"You easterners are all the same, stupid and childish."

"Don't forget good looking." That also got me a pop in the eye, I started to not feel so lucky (and started to have issues seeing). Thankfully we arrived at the docks and then were unceremoniously dumped on a boat. The driver who called us lucky stayed behind, the man who had hit me in the eye of course kept going back to whatever he was doing.

"What an entirely unpleasant person." Slats summed up my feelings well.

"Yeah I tell you soldiers for the enemy are kind of dicks." And so we moved on from our small boat to a gigantic steel behemoth in the middle of the harbor. It was rather impressive in a terrifying way. Even Slats thought so. Me I just figured somehow I was going to have to blow it up, thankfully I was wrong, well I didn't end up having to blow it up. Yeah just think about that one for a bit!