Episode Nine
The Broughster R3 was Gloria’s g*n of choice, and she’d had the one she carried for at least as long as I’d known her. It’s a solid model, simple and reliable. It doesn’t have any of the fancy features some of the older varieties might, and it doesn’t incorporate any ancient tech. But therein lie its virtues. It has few moving parts and the ammunition is easy to manufacture. It’s the kind of g*n that’ll work when you need it to, so it’s the kind of g*n you carry when you know you’ll need your g*n to work. It fit Gloria’s personality. She demanded functionality with as few complications as possible. That’s one of the reasons we worked so well together. We shared a sense of pragmatism, even if it sometimes expressed in different ways.
“Oh, you’re going to love this,” I said to
