Ohio is, for a moment, rock steady. It's down to him and the gun. It's not about leading a stupid team he doesn't care about, it's not about being tangled up in impossible shadow politics, it's not about anything but a scope and a trigger and a bullet and those are the things in his life he can control.
The hunter rounds on Oklahoma and barrels forward, and for a moment it's cruising in a straight line. That's all Ohio needs to line up a shot into an exposed patch of worms at its flank. The sniper rifle is not the best weapon for tearing into things, the round's designed to go straight through and it wastes most of its momentum, but it's just moving so fast that the ballistic shock of it is still enough to topple the hunter.
"Ha!" he snarls.
Somewhere on the other side of the base, something roars.
They'd better move before the other one finds them.
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Ohio is, for a moment, rock steady. It's down to him and the gun. It's not about leading a stupid team he doesn't care about, it's not about being tangled up in impossible shadow politics, it's not about anything but a scope and a trigger and a bullet and those are the things in his life he can control.
The hunter rounds on Oklahoma and barrels forward, and for a moment it's cruising in a straight line. That's all Ohio needs to line up a shot into an exposed patch of worms at its flank. The sniper rifle is not the best weapon for tearing into things, the round's designed to go straight through and it wastes most of its momentum, but it's just moving so fast that the ballistic shock of it is still enough to topple the hunter.
"Ha!" he snarls.
Somewhere on the other side of the base, something roars.
They'd better move before the other one finds them.