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It was several weeks later before the stranger returned, even more sunburned and with his leather armour a little worse for wear. He dropped a sniper rifle and a batter SMG onto Knight’s desk and gave him a brilliant smile.
“Hi! Fancy running into you again!”
“Fancy that”, Knight gave back with a grin. That smile was terribly infectious. “What brings you here?”
“Repairs, mostly. And something I came to think about.”
Knight wasn’t sure, it might have been a trick of the light, but he thought the stranger had winked at him. Trying to keep his voice sounding non-committing, he didn’t look up from the guns as he spoke. “What’s that?”
“Well, firstly that I forgot to tell you my name. I’m Leo. So, now that we’re properly introduced, I’d like to ask you something.”
Knight looked up at that, lifting his eyebrows. The stranger – no, Leo – looked at him with unmasked amusement.
“Your name’s Knight, right? Does your family by chance hail from Shady Sands?”
“From a farm in the area, close enough”, Knight replied, honestly puzzled now. “Why?”
“See, my sister’s husbands cousin is married to a girl there”, Leo explained, waving his hands as if to illustrate the complicated web of kinships he was explaining. “And the name of that guy is also Knight. So I was wondering if that Knight had anything to do with you.”
“He might”, Knight gave back, as amused as he was confused. “What’s his name?”
“Uh... what was his name...” Leo narrowed his eyes, glanced at Knight for a second before grinning and snapped his fingers. “George!”
Major Knight didn’t know anyone in his family called George apart from his maternal grandfather. Only when he looked at Leo again and saw him stare expectantly at him with a grin on his face and a twinkle in his eyes did he suspect he was being lured. He took the bait. “What, George?”
“Hah! I don’t believe it!” Leo rubbed his hands together in glee. “The world’s a tiny place, isn’t it?”
“It is”, Knight gave back, still completely mystified at Leo’s intentions.
“Funny old world”, Leo gave back, still grinning. “Travelling the Mojave and running into Family.” He chuckled. “Hey, now that we’re discovered we’re practically cousins... fancy a beer tonight, after your shift? I’ll be over in the barracks. I’m dying to hear some news about Anne-Mary.”
“Uhm. Well, the latest news I have is a couple of months old, so it’s not really that new”, Knight gave back, trying to keep up with events.
“Oh.” Leo said with a dismissive flick of his hand. “It’s newer than the last I heard, anyway. Well, I’ll see you in a bit, Coz.” With that, he walked out of the door, leaving Knight to stare at his back wondering if the man called Leo just lacked a few marbles or if he had some hidden motive behind that whole scheme. He rather hoped for the latter and still had no idea what to do then.
“Hey Knight”, one of the soldiers who had been loitering in a corner said to him with a laugh. “We knew your family was quite a clan, but that it stretches out over half the bloody continent...” The others joined the laugh.
“Well”, Knight gave back. “I guess we’re just too fertile.”
The laughter turned a little coarse and one of the soldiers patted his arm with a dirty chuckle as he past him on the way out.