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The Inescapable Bullet
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The Lion regarded the wide-eyed young girl silently for a long while making her start to fidget nervously.
Alta poked him in the side exasperatedly.
"What?" he said crossly.
She wordlessly shook her head in exasperation, and knelt before the newly discovered Senshi Necromunda, smiling warmly, "Would you tell me your name, little sister?"
"Adrasteia," the girl in question mumbled, grey eyes dazzled as she looked up into Alta's face.
Alta nodded approvingly, "A lovely name."
The blond Primarch gave his companion a quizzical look, and was answered with a smile, "It means 'inevitable'."
He looked grudgingly pleased and nodded in agreement, "A suitable name."
The grey-eyed girl blushed furiously at the praise, while Alta rolled her eyes derisively at his last comment.
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Tongue poking out in focus, Adrasteia meticulously aimed her new custom-made bolt-pistol and fired, hitting the target dead-center.
"Good," said the grizzled Guardsman gruffly, "Now do it faster, or the enemy will have made off with your eyeballs before you could have fired."
She made a disgruntled face at him and ended up prodded sharply for her trouble.
"And you do want to keep them, don't you?" he continued blithely.
"Of course!" she glared at him.
"Then go faster."
Growling, she re-aimed and fired smoothly, more rapidly this time.
"Again!"
She groaned and pressed the gun to her forehead.
"Hop to it, girl!" he barked in his best drill sergeant voice.
"Alright alright!"
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"C'mon, c'mon…" whispered the grey-and-green clad young woman staring down the barrel of the high calibre rifle in her hands, holding herself still and patient until the target entered her sights.
'Got it!'
There was a muffled thump as she pressed the trigger and the silenced gun bucked in recoil, and as the bullet rocketed outwards, she scooped up the spent casing, her gear and left while anybody was none-the-wiser.
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