Gorro Atome's Arc

Chapter 6 of 6

Gorro cut behind the old burial yard before he reached the cottage. Two more guards spotted his blue armor and rushed him through the carved stones. He ducked behind a tall weathered marker and let the first man come. One elbow, one twist, and the guard dropped at his boots. The second charged with his blade high. Gorro set his stance and waited. The guard stumbled mid-step and fell flat. An arrow stood out of his skull. The first guard lay the same way. Gorro looked up past the gravestones. A young woman stood between two markers with a bow still drawn. He stepped closer, slow, and saw the shape of a face he had not seen since he was a boy. "Cassidy," he said. She lowered the bow. In that single word the question of who he could trust in this town closed itself. He had his answer, and he had a witness — which meant the next move was no longer his alone.