Jawbreak Blue, Chapter Seven: A Party on the Pleasant
Mountain
When last we traveled with Gyra, Dansel Darrons and their Boatman
Stinson, the three had just finished up a holiday at the biggest
Red-And-Gold-Reserve any of them had ever seen.
Their time at the Anacostia River resort and casino had also refreshed
them—happily—and refunded them a bit of tangible fortune—finally—such that they
could continue on their adventure through post-apocalyptic 2012 Washington, DC…
Stinson, though he’d left their
boat behind (and it also did possess a gasoline engine), still went along using
the lone wooden oar as his walking stick. As they hiked up out of the Columbia
Heights subway station, he ignored the swell of echoing young-people’s
argument, or love spat, or God knows what it could have been coming out of
Dansel and Gyra:
“A gentleman will not insult
me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”
“You already used that one back
in Anacostia, Dansel—and what are you calling me now, a man? You’re such an
ass!”
