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Klein leaned back. Quite a lot had happened. Qatar wasn’t dead. The melee that the “lord castle” has wanted seemed to be unofficially over. Liorah was back though she seemed different. She promptly began an argument with Lorcan. Someone else appeared as well. Basil seemed to know her. She seemed a little jumpy, but everyone would be all things considered. Klein began to pick at his ear. He needed time to understand everything.

Leaning against the cave wall, Klein began to disassemble his rifle. This spell of calm wouldn’t last long. He should take this chance to prepare for a long haul. Taking the barrel off, Klein assembled a bore scrub. Holding the barrel up to the light, he watched the glimmering on the rifling. There wasn’t any copper residue or pieces of the rifling broken inside. Running the scrub down, he switched the head for an oiled patch.

Next, he turned to the bolt carrier. Grim had entered during the firefight earlier in the town. It wasn’t enough to stop the action yet but why give it the chance. Cleaning out the old oil with a cloth patch, Klein replaced it with clean oil. The trigger assembly was clean, better protected by the frame and bolt carrier. Returning all parts to the frame, he worked the action a few times to spread the oil before loading the rifle. Overall, it took about three minutes.

Looking up, Klein heard the conversation between Basil and Ruan. He was uncomfortable about opening up but he needed allies, especially after the last trick of this place.

“I’m an orphan. Abandoned at birth. Folk like me ain’t common. We are seen as poor souls in need of help or career criminals in the making. I got lucky. My mother left me at a church. The priest became my father and the other orphans were my siblings.” Klein chuckled at the memory. A kid too young to understand how the world worked. Such innocence he had. “A few years ago, a terrorist cell crashed a starship into the city. I, um, worked at ground zero for a few days. After that I volunteered to make sure (Expletive) like them couldn’t do it again.”