Page 406 of Chaos has a Name
Thursday Morning
As soon as she emptied the second clip, she handed them back to Gryphen, as everyone stared at her. There was no doubt she was pissed, but no one had expected that. Only, as soon as the silence hit, they all heard it.
A hasty retreat.
Someone was running away from them, and that was likely a good idea. It was clear that Elizabeth was done playing around with the killers.
She’d never done anything like that before, and that said it all.
She.
Was.
Pissed.
Then, as if nothing happened, she carried on with her investigation.
“Okay, let’s hit the bar,” she said, calmly.
Everyone there was staring at her.
“What?” she asked, looking around. “They fired an arrow at me. I think that allows me to fire back. I would have used my gun, but I forgot it’s from Michael. I could have kept going.”
Her son was staring at the arrow in the log next to her head.
Holy shit!
That had been close.
“Uh, two clips?” Ivan asked.
Elizabeth shrugged.
“I mean, if someone’s going to try to kill me, I’m allowed to do the same back. One didn’t seem like enough to scare them.”
Yeah, they were all staring at her.
Ivan shook his head.
“Psych eval in aisle crazy,” he stated, as Gryphen just patted his pockets for more clips. She’d used up both of his.
Elizabeth continued.
“That will buy us a little time as they regroup. We don’t have enough security to cover us and the trees. Like Ethan said…they wanted us to chase. We’re not playing their game. We’re playing mine. The crazy Natives seem to think that this white woman is out of her element. So, when they go crazy, you go crazier.”
Yowza.
Her husband was worried about her, but then, Callen understood.
Her child was right there.
Yeah, he was good with that response.
“And no paperwork,” she said, “since it wasn’t an FBI sidearm. Think of it as just checking to make sure Gryphen keeps his gun well-oiled.”
That said it all.
As she walked back to the car, Takoda sticking to her like glue, she spoke to Ethan and Axl.
