Escape Artists
PodCastle => Episode Comments => Topic started by: Ocicat on February 19, 2020, 05:40:33 PM
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PodCastle 614: White Noon (https://podcastle.org/2020/02/18/podcastle-614-white-noon/)
Author: Aidan Doyle (https://podcastle.org/people/aidan-doyle/)
Narrator: Julie Hoverson (https://podcastle.org/people/julie-hoverson/)
Host: Setsu Uzume (https://podcastle.org/people/setsu-uzume/)
Audio Producer: Peter Behravesh (https://podcastle.org/people/peter-behravesh/)
PodCastle 614: White Noon is a PodCastle original.
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Show Notes
Rated PG-13.
The dogs’ barking let me know I had visitors. I reluctantly left my chair by the fire, pulled on my boots, and took my thundergun from its place on the wall. I rarely had any visitors apart from Magnus, which was how the dogs and I liked it.
When I opened the cabin door, the sun’s brightness made me squint. The sky was bluer than a husky’s eyes. Most folks enjoyed summer’s months of continual sunlight, but I preferred the peace of winter’s darkness. Nobody but a lover expects things of you when it’s dark.
I walked across the crisp snow, my breath appearing as a mist in front of me. A ten-dog team pulling a sled with two people in it drew to a halt outside my cabin. The two figures stepped off the sled, one of them crouching down to check the dogs and the other striding towards me. I recognized Kristin’s loping gait before I could make out her face. She always looked as though she was in a hurry to reach tomorrow. It had been years since I’d seen my sisters.
Kristin wore a heavy coat with wanted posters stitched onto it. All of the villains had their faces crossed out. A pair of silver thunderguns rested in holsters by her side.
“It’s a fine day for sledding,” Kristin said. Her tone suggested that only the most inglorious of cowards would disagree.
“Fine day for staying warm,” I replied.
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