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can take the truck, and whatever else he has worth taking. Since he uses the truck to go out trading and scavenging he probably has a lot of good stuff.”
    Adrian studied her face for a long moment. She was dead serious, she wasn’t joking around. Adrian smiled a little, for the first time all day. “Racy, I believe you would do just as you say. Trouble is you might be overloading yourself. Maybe you could kill him, but then maybe he won’t die so easy. You thought about that?”
    “Thought about it? I’ve been thinking about it for two years Mr. Hunter. It’s a thought that has kept me going on many a night. I have thought about it, planned it, visualized it, dreamed of it and swore myself to do it when the time came where I could. I am going to do it, it’s as simple as that. He may be hard to kill, but I’ll get six bullets into him no matter what else happens, or what may happen to me. Using Reggie’s gun just adds a bit of irony to it.”
    Adrian was blown away by Racy’s fervor. Yet, not only could he understand it, he agreed with her. She had this to do, and needed to do it. Even though she wasn’t grown up yet, she had some serious payback due to her. She had a lot of scores to settle, and this might be the only one she would ever have a chance to see through.
    Adrian decided to help her.
    “Racy, why don’t you get the girls started packing, keep them busy. Tell them you and I will be gone for a while. I probably shouldn’t do this, but I’ll help you settle up and then we’ll get his truck.”
    “First,” she said, with infinite patience, “I already have the girls busy packing; you weren’t paying attention earlier. Second, this is mine to do, not yours. I will not be cheated of this by you or anyone else. I’ll kill him, no one else.”
    “Understood, I’ll just go along to back you up. It’ll be your show. Plus, do you know how to operate the wood burner and drive the truck? I do. Besides, I won’t let you go alone, either I go or you don’t go at all.”
    Racy folded her arms and studied him for a moment, then nodded quickly. “Yes sir. When do you want to leave?”
    “Why not right now? How far is it?”
    “Half an hour or so. I’ll change clothes and be right back.”
    While she was gone Adrian took a moment to tell Lila and Rita and the rest of the girls that he and Racy were going to get a truck and would be back in a few hours, and to mind the next oldest girl while they were gone. He had no sooner finished talking to them, than Racy was back. She was dressed in jeans and boots and a plaid shirt, with a light jacket. She already had Reggie’s pistol in her jacket pocket. She was impatient to get going.

Chapter 5
    “C ome on Mr. Hunter!” said Racy. “The girls will be fine. I gave shotguns to the two oldest girls, they know how to use them. And I gave them a password for when we come back or they might use them on us. We’ll only be gone a little while. Let’s get going.”
    Adrian studied her in silence. She really wants to kill this guy bad. He must be a real piece of shit, ’cause she seems like a nice enough girl otherwise. Maybe she’s psycho, but she doesn’t act like it—other than this one thing. “Okay, let’s get.”
    The moon had crested the tree tops and shed enough light that a lantern wasn’t necessary. As they walked Adrian asked, “You ever kill anyone before?”
    “Why?”
    “Seems like a pertinent question given what you’re up to doesn’t it?”
    “Yes. I mean yes it’s a pertinent question. No, I’ve never killed anyone before.”
    “Are you totally sure this is what you want to do? A lot of people spend the rest of their lives regretting killing someone, even though they thought it was a good idea at the time.”
    “I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do or not.” Racy replied. “I don’t know if I’ll regret it the rest of my life, but I doubt it very much. I do know that I’ll regret not killing him for the rest of my