Free Fallocaust (The Fallocaust Series) by Quil Carter

the assholes in this town, a bunch of idiotic fucks, selfish, and stupid, but they were my job to protect.
Funny, thinking back on it now, I had a bit more loyalty to my town then I do now. Now I think I’ve become a bit more jaded when it comes to the town’s residents, I guess it’s just being young and naive. I don’t know if I would have done things differently if it had happened now, I would have definitely thought about it a bit longer.
I didn’t know if I did the right thing, not killing the mercer, so many different scenarios played through my head as I waited for the creaking noise of the tunnel’s opening to be heard. I hoped my plan had worked, but knew there were many things that could go wrong. King Silas’s military wasn’t known for being lenient, they weren’t known for sparing people. People were disposable in the soldier’s eyes, and King Silas’s eyes.
At that time in my life I was just starting to learn who the hell King Silas even was, which I guess was the fucking point of this story to begin with before I started replaying the whole thing in my head. Before today all I knew of King Silas was that he was the man that ruled the greywastes and that he had a family of helpers to carry out his orders. How he got to be king, I didn’t know, who had succeeded him... didn’t know.
    I was about to learn though.
     
     
     
     
    Chapter 5
     
    Reaver
     
    Two Years Previous
     
     
     
                          
    I jumped as the tunnels opening let out the all too familiar creak I grabbed my M16 just to err on the side of caution but I knew who it was. A good hour and a half had gone by since I had entered my house, and I had already gone through three quils and even a few lines of opiate powder. I had nodded off from the opiates without even realizing it.
When I saw Leo and Greyson emerge from my tunnel into my basement, I was so relieved I could feel the weight lift off of my shoulders, though I tried hard not show it on my face.
    Greyson and Leo however, didn’t bother hiding their emotions.
    Greyson stalked right up to me and smacked me hard upside the head, I jumped back and yelled in surprise, dropping my gun onto the floor. I was about to clock him back, as a reflex more then anything when he roughly hugged me.
I was confused.
Leo must have registered my confused face and found it amusing because his glare turned into a smirk pretty quickly.
“Ah, let him be, hun, he’s confused enough as it is,” Leo chuckled. Greyson was still hugging me tightly, he gave me one last squeeze, and promptly started hitting me again.
“Fuck sakes! Stop it!” I protested angrily. I recoiled, not just from being hit, I hated being touched by anyone. “You were the fucking one that put me in that position asshole, don’t take your shitty plan out on me.”
    “Simple instructions!” he hollered. “SIMPLE! Shoot him! What the fuck is wrong with you? Do you realize how close you were to being killed? Or WORSE!?”
    “Back off!” I yelled back, I started to get annoyed.“Tell me what the fuck is going on?”
Greyson threw his hands up into the air and let out an exasperated breath. “Everything got settled, that’s all that matters.” He sounded like he was saying that to himself as much as he was to me.
    Not good enough, I said to myself. I narrowed my eyes and watched as Greyson started to pace the room.
“Why were you hiding me?” I demanded.
Greyson and Leo both froze, I was surprised by this reaction, but I didn’t show it on my face. I stood there with my arms crossed, standing my ground. They were in my territory now, leaders or not, I was going to get answers from them.
Greyson took a few seconds to compose himself, and I knew in those vital seconds he was trying to think of what he was going to say to me next; perhaps trying to decide whether he was going to tell me the truth or not.
    The leader of Aras, a man with dark brown hair, fading at the temples and grey eyes,