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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It wasn't Avice. Just a tiefling... Or nephilim, or whatever they're called in her world. Better one of those than a Devil on a calling card. He gestured to the downed chopper. "You ever see one of those in action? And since you know who I am, think it's only fair you tell me who you are."

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Now that he sees all of her, he relaxes, an easy smile curling his lips. "They say I have the devil's own luck," he put a hand on the ruins of the helicopter, "but they're dead, so, it's a fifty-fifty split on whether they're right or not."

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

He saw the crimson of her eyes and immediately stopped moving. "Ever heard the name 'Avice'?" He asked, tone sharp and his hands frozen at his sides.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

at least on his part—before sticking a thumb back toward the bar. "Stranger in a strange land. I know most people that come through here, but I don't recognize you. Fancy a drink and some tale-swapping?" He wore a gray shirt, a weathered jacket, work gloves, roughed-up denim and work shoes.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

He rounded a corner and spotted the stranger. He'd been around Haven Lake more than enough to recognize pretty much everyone, aside from the occasional traveler here and there, and this person wore wraps around their face. He offered a friendly wave—a regular occurrence to people inside Haven Lake,

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

leak out of his mouth. Sirens in the distance. Why was his eyesight so blurry? Sleepy? A nap could be nice. So nice... A vaguely humanoid figure disappeared from sight just before his eyes shut.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

came to my rescue." His hand was pressed against the wound, a few bits of gravel pressing into his skin beside the gunshot wound. "Was it worth it? To kill a few measly humans?" Avice taunted him. "... its always worth it to kill traffickers," he snorted the last word out and felt some blood

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"You never were the best at making sure you got out as well as the people around you." He didn't laugh. He shut his eyes, a wave of intense pain radiating upward from his abdomen. He knew, without treatment, he'd bleed out soon. But he smiled anyway. "If only you were real. If only someone else

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

of beauty, swam into view before him. Perfect lips, a perfect chin, and those gorgeous purple eyes. Horns that curled up and behind her head, and a simpering smile she once reserved for him and only him. "Huey, you can't let yourself get this bad." She shook her head, tutting audibly.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

band and loosely holding the beer bottle with three of his fingers and his thumb while pain jolted through his abdomen and hip. He collapsed one step into walking across the parking lot. The flames of a burning 2007 Honda Civic lit the otherwise dark and dismal lot. A face, beyond any description

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

the bodies in the lot weren't corpses. The twitching could just be muscles spasming after the fight. Or he could be alive, despite the bullet hole in his head and in his heart and the puddle around his body. Huey slapped his knees with his wrists, then stood up, sliding the pistol into his belt

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Huey pressed the lukewarm beer bottle to the side of his throbbing head and grabbed his pistol in his other hand, then pointed it at a still-twitching corpse a few feet to his right. "Could've avoided all this," he spoke calmly. "I just asked a few questions." Admittedly, he wasn't sure if any of

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Days after the weird incident with the weird girl, he sat alone at the edge of a parking lot amidst a small field of bodies. Spent casings littered the lot. A motorcycle with a blown tire leaned against the mangled corpse of a man with a forgettable face. Jaw broken. Knee bent the wrong way.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Okay, you can cuss, but! you can't tell anyone that I told you all of them. And the ones in Spanish. I didn't do that.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Who taught the kid swear words?

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

He gestured for her to toss the ball back. "Catch?"

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

That's what a lot of people said about things throughout history. Including flying in large metal contraptions.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

He tapped the side of his head. "Same." He picked up one of the foam balls and tossed it back at her. "Are you often throwing balls at people?"

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

A cool world would be Earth with helicopters. And UBI, if not the demise of capitalism entirely.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

He shook his head. "Don't misunderstand me. I'm not judging you for what she did, or that you're a demon. Just a lot of bad memories mixed in there, and reminders of her aren't very fun."

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"Don't like that. Do like that. At least you're not her."

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

And end up in a wasteland for another year? No thanks.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"Any chance you're a demon and have any knowledge of a demon named Avice...?"

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Nah. Been on the wrong end of too many portals.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

His easygoing smile vanished when he saw the portals. He stopped moving altogether, whether the balls hit him or not.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Oh, great. Weird portals.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

He caught the first few and started throwing them back at her, amused by her antics.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"It's like eight thousand lines of code and I'm just trying to update my drivers... It's been almost a year. There are a lot of updates."

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

sudo pacman -R webkit2gtk might be my salvation today.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

He was free. But what did one do with freedom? He got onto his motorcycle, then shot off into the streets, a full tank of gas and wanderlust screaming in his heart.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

demonic claws were still in him, even after all this time.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

He's not sure what he expected. This wasn't the wasteland, he was back home now, even if a few years had passed by. There weren't raiding parties moving around, snatching up people to hack them up. "Cya." He sauntered off, heading for the parking garage, feeling that burn in his chest. Avice's

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The van was pulling away, thankfully. For now.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

He looked down at Amanda. "I owe you an apology. You're around me and my shit luck is at play." He muttered something about demons, then turned in the direction of that parking garage he mentioned earlier. "You ever seen a Harley before?" he asked, then glanced at the opposite side of the street.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

for a beer party. His body language suggested he was about to unleash that violence. [ 🎲] "... Sure. Yeah. Whatever. We'll meet at the usual place later on." Huey released the man, who seemed to teeter on the spot for half a second, and then went back to his van, scratching his head.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Huey kept calm. His easygoing smile slowly returned, then he raised his hand and embraced the other man. "Been ages. However, that's not my kid, and, I'm not in the mood for your horseshit. Go back to your fucking van before I blow your head off." His tone suggested he was inviting the man over

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

"No. You cannot control how people react to your existence."

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Smoking a cigar on the pier.

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Mostly. Sure. [The hellhound was cute, initially, but then it just reminded him of Avice and his expression slowly shifted.] Cute dog. I'm gonna go get lost in a few beers, so, catch you later?

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

you went an adopted some poor kid!"

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

hastened their steps subconsciously. "Well if it isn't good ol' Kaiser." Glasses spoke with a teasing edge. Huey prepped to stand in the way of Amanda. "Grant," Huey replied evenly. Grant gave Amanda a calculating look, like he was sizing up a slab of fish at the market. "Kaiser, don't tell me

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Huey @achopperpilot.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

about to get ugly, and it's going off." Across the street, three men in various street clothed approached. One of them wore glasses with unusually thick sides, and a small camera just visible in the waning sunlight. They walked like they owned the street, and everyone on the nearby sidewalk

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