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No Introduction (Fuchsia)

Let’s get one thing straight

This may be my story, but I’m no hero

I’ve never been anyone’s hero, savior, personal shrink, bestie, or…the list could fill a phone book

But you can be da that needs to be done?

I’irl

Maybe that’s hoound up here

Staring down the barrel of a gold-plated gun, the taste of adrenaline in the back offro worse than a hot date with death

Leland Durha black eye of a muzzle

“Really?” I whisper, disdain dripping off ue “Are the bullets at least twenty-four karat too?”

“Breathe another word and I’ll show you, witch,” Durham barks back

I wonder how many people the once-illustrious CEO of Galentron has actually killed with his own filthy hands His ot me locked in a clear shot a drunken cowboy blinded in both eyes couldn’t miss, so…

So, I guess this is the part where I should probably putfor a few more years in paradise This is where I should know the next roll of the dice won’t be kind when the paun has already deconstructed my life piece by piece

That’s what any nor with a functional sense of self-preservation would do

If you think that’s what I’ll do, you don’t know me very well

My name is Fuchsia Delaney

Before I was Fuchsia, I was Patty Brin

Patty Brin never would’ve survived this Poor,

But me?

Well

Let ot to be here

Let ale you because I think I deservescene

Let h old Leland’s got me cornered

Alone, without a prayer

Just un trained right betweenfast, the scent of hot metal overstill lodged in the wall and s from the force of impact

And then let me tell you how I’ll walk out of here alive with this piece of scum dead at my feet