Sentry Duty

by Roisin o'Hare


“What was that?!”

“Something in the bushes.”

“You know what that means.”

“No?”

“We're sentries. Either it's someone throwing a rock to distract us, or we go look and it's just a cat and then they hit us on the back of the head.”

“So we ignore it?”

“Yeah.”

“Right.”


The assassin sighed in relief.