An Examination of Collegial Dynamics as Expressed Through Marksmanship, or, Ladies' Day Out: Cas Russell Series

By SL Huang

Cas teaches Pilar to shoot.  Considering Cas is an acerbic mercenary and Pilar is a delightful admin, this goes about how you'd expect.

• Language: English
• Publisher: SL Huang
• Release date: Sep 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516341016

Book preview

An Examination of Collegial Dynamics as Expressed Through Marksmanship, or, LADIES’ DAY OUT

by SL Huang

Copyright ©2015 SL Huang

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

For more information or further permissions, contact information is available at www.slhuang.com.

Cover copyright ©2015 Najla Qamber

All rights reserved. The cover art may not be reproduced in whole or in part without permission from the copyright holder, except as permitted by law.

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance in the text to actual events or to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Cover art: Najla Qamber Designs

An Examination of Collegial Dynamics as Expressed Through Marksmanship

or

LADIES’ DAY OUT

A Cas Russell Short Story

Hey, Cas? Can I ask a favor?

I looked up from the file I was paging through. Pilar and I were alone in Arthur’s private investigations office—I was sprawled in a chair checking up on some of the fallout from the Arkacite case, and she, as Arthur and Checker’s newly-minted office manager, was working on some sort of…filing stuff.

Or whatever office managers did.

But now Pilar had a glint in her eye that made me feel very, very cautious. Not to mention that I wasn’t really the favor type.

What is it? I said.

She bounced in her desk chair and leaned forward on her elbows, her lips twitching upward. Will you teach me to shoot?

Shoot a gun?

She grinned. I want to learn.

I wasn’t sure why the request surprised me. After all, Pilar might look cute and normal, but we’d met her when she’d volunteered to commit corporate espionage and then go toe-to-toe with a Mob boss.

Still, it didn’t sound like my idea of fun. You point it and you fire it, I said.

Sure, if you’re a super-powered mathy genius like someone out of the movies! She leaned on the words meaningfully. "I’m pretty sure if I tried to take that sort of advice I’d end up, like, killing someone."

That’s generally the idea.

Cas!

I have no idea how to teach, I said. Why can’t you ask Arthur?

I did. She dropped her eyes and played with the corners of some papers on her desk. And he said he would, only he keeps putting it off, and I feel bad about bugging him, because, well, you know.

Know what?

"Well, he’s