It’s a few months down the road before any of the gunners will ride through Arens. Mostly it’s because of what happened—these men are a superstitious lot. In the aftermath of Gerrick’s accident, rumors settled like dust over the outposts. Broken now, riddled with pain, a shadow of the man he used to be…that’s what the other gunners say. They talk about how his truck gave out during a devlar attack. How his brakes died as he flew down one of the runs. How his windshield shattered his face into a network of scars when he hit a ravine and was thrown from the cab. The men who found him say they barely managed to pull him away from the wreckage before it went up in flames.
Every gunner knows trucks don’t just blow up. When Gerrick drove into the outpost, he needed a few shocks, new brake shoes
