Test of Fire by Ben Bova

Author:Ben Bova [Bova, Ben]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0523485476
Publisher: Tor / Pinnacle
Published: 1982-10-04T21:00:00+00:00

Ferret slid off the back of the truck and tested his injured leg. It was all right. He could stand on it and walk. The food they had given him had made him strong again, and the leg would heal soon enough.

He limped around the truck and saw Alec stretched out on the ground, the shiny pistol at his side. Ferret crouched so that the guard inside the next truck could not see him, and stared at the pistol. He could snatch it and be off into the woods. They would never find him, and he’d have a wonderful gun for himself.

Dimly he remembered Billy-Joe and the others of the band who had been killed. And his mother, feeding him, crooning him to sleep when he was a baby. They coulda killed me, Ferret said to himself. He coulda killed me. But he didn’t.

The gun was an enormous temptation. But so was the food and medical care and wary but kind treatment these people had given him. I’ll stay with them for a while, Ferret decided. This looks like a good gang to stay with. For now.

Stealthily he climbed back onto the truck and went back to sleep.

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