The driver of the van killed the lights. There was still enough moonlight to track it.
“Who is that?” yelled Francina above the sound of the machine gun blast.
Noecker gritted his teeth and pulled hard on the trigger a second time as a spray of bullets narrowly missed their target. If their target was a small bush thirty metres away from the road.
“Do you want to try aiming first?”
“Hold this tin can still for a second and I’ll have a better chance. Bloody amateurs.”
The van skidded and turned hard left into the veld. Bullets sprayed the sand but none of them found their mark.
Connor banked the plane to the right. “I’ll have to go around.”
Noecker grunted with pain. “Take your shirt off,” he coughed, bubbles of blood forming around his mouth.
“You don’t have enough blood left for that.” Connor pulled hard on the controls, watching through the side window as the hippie van performed a series of handbrake turns. “He’s churning up the dust. Reducing visibility.”
“Not for that,” growled Noecker. “For a bandage. Tie it tight around my shoulder.”
Francina did as she was told for once and took off her black shirt. Connor lost sight of the van for a second, not in the dust, but looking over his shoulder at Francina, now in a black vest top, bending over and fixing a tourniquet around Noecker.
“Eyes on the van and off my tits, thank you very much.”
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