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"She Hits Like A Girl"
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The movement approaching Delal from behind made a familiar shift in sound, from soft steps upon the hard ground to slithering through the recently scythed corn. A moment later, one of the Fighting Falcons slid up beside her, saying, "My watch, you're relieved. What do I need to know?"
"How to tell time, for one," she snapped. "You know--"
"Yeah, yeah, I know, gotta be back before the sun sets," he cut in, snatching up the powerful field glasses laying in the grass beside her. As he put the glasses to his eyes and looked toward a distant grove of trees, he said with a derisive tone, "God commands it."
He lowered the binoculars and looked her in her eyes, squinted by her fury, "What religion is this again...? Vampirism? Gotta be back by dark so you can don your cape and fly around-- Oww!"
Delal had slugged him with painful force before looking off toward the trees, gritting her teeth. She wasn't angry that the young man -- 21 years of age to her 20 -- was making fun of her family's unorthodox religion. She was used to that. All her life, even before she could understand that she was being mocked and ridiculed, Delal had known that she and her Tribe were different from anyone else and that they would face discrimination because of it.
No, she was angry because his tardiness would mean that she wouldn't be back inside the family's covered, gypsy-like wagon before sundown, which in turn would anger her father, which in turn would again lead to yet another discussion about her involvement with the Fighting Falcons.
Although she had been trained from a young age to handle herself -- with her hands, with knives, with fire arms, with anything she had available -- Delal had crossed a line with her father when she began standing watches and going on missions with the Falcons. It was one thing to protect the Tribe, her father had told her time and time again. It was a whole different thing -- an inappropriate thing -- to get involved in anti-Greeve insurgency and inter-militia squabbling with this militia.
"Dozen men, all armed," she began her SitRep for the young man. "Three vehicles. One Hummer, original military issue, not Oh, I gotta have one in my drive 'cause the Joneses have one."
She didn't honestly know what that meant -- the battle with the Joneses next door was fought before her birth, before the Greeve. But she'd heard the stories all her life about how people in the first half of the 21st century had been rabid consumers, always having to have the newest, the biggest, the best. Now, people were happy to have food in their belly and a roof over their head.
She continued, "Hummer's got a gun on top. Fifty cal' looks like. An old jeep and a one ton flat bed with barrels. Fuel maybe."
He asked some more questions, and Delal answered them with bare tolerance. She edged backwards until she knew she could withdraw unseen by anyone down in the grove who might also be doing some observing, then headed down the hill. She looked over her shoulder and caught the last bit of the sun as if fell behind the hill. She cringed. I'm SO gonna get it.
What she got, however, wasn't her father's fury but one of the Falcon's disapproval. As Delal entered the militia's camp, one of the fighters -- already drunk -- began teasing her about nothing and everything all at the same time. She tried to ignore him. Although many of the Falcons respected her and her Tribe for being survivors and contributors to the militia's continuance, others thought of them only as tagalongs who were taking advantage of the Falcons' protection.
She was almost through the camp proper when a second Falcon -- not as drunk but still smelling of poorly brewed sorghum ale -- stepped directly in her path and started flirting with her. When she said she wasn't interested, he spouted back, "C'mon, little girl. You're old enough now. And you owe us. I think that maybe--"
He'd been reaching out for her as he spoke, and Delal slapped his hand away. His smile disappeared for a moment at the strike, then reappeared as he obviously took the young woman's reaction as a challenge. He laughed, then looked past her to the half dozen other men who had begun to near them and said, "She hits like a girl."
The others laughed -- then suddenly ceased to do so as Delal landed a fist to the man's throat. He coughed and grasped at his neck, backing away from her. He wasn't going to be a problem for a while, so she turned to look at the others, hoping the incident was over. It wasn't. Two of the men started toward her as one of them taunted, "Oh, little girl wants to play rough, huh?"
He sped up just as he got close. Delal simply stepped aside, driving a kick to his chest, then a slashing karate like chop to the back of his neck. He went down like a sack of potatoes, not that the Falcons had had a sack of potatoes recently. They wouldn't know it until later -- when he regained consciousness -- but Delal had broken one of the man's ribs and he would be out of commission for a couple of weeks as he recovered.
The second man's fate wasn't as lasting but it resulted in great laughter. Also drunk, he entirely missed Delal as he lunged and she side stepped, and when he turned around for a second go, her swiftly moving foot caught him with great force between his thighs. He emitted a comical oooof, dropped to his knees with his hands clutching his package, then continued forward to slam to the packed ground as his eyes filled with tears.
Delal turned to face the other men. None were coming her way, but all were studying her intently, some with impressed looks, others with desire to teach her a lesson or two, in and out of her worn, dusty clothes. As she looked to the unconscious man who would never again risk this with her, Delal confirmed, "Yes ... I hit like a girl." She looked to the others and advised, "And if you ever want to learn how to hit as good as a girl ... just ask. I'd be happy to teach you."
There was some laughter, and some sexist comments. Some of the men turned back to the fire, while others just watched her. Then, that one man who always has to be the outsider began to walk slowly toward Delal. He said in a soft but threatening tone, "Maybe you should teach me what it means to hit like a girl. But ... if you can't ... I'm going to teach you what it means to hit like a man."
He reached one hand down to cup his package obviously, as a short club began to slide downward into sight in the other. Delal's heart began to pound even harder as she realized she'd gone too far and was about to get her ass kicked.
That didn't happen though, for behind the man, another figure appeared and brought an end to the confrontation.
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