Iron Veve's Kiss
“Let him choke on it.”
Dragon’s hand finds mine, his palm scarred from engine burns and old battles. We’re a matched set, he and I—broken things remade sharper. Outside, engines snarl. Lou Nwa’s bikes form a crescent around the porch, headlights cutting through the swarm of wings. *Not enough. Never enough.*
Uncle D racks his shotgun. “Koulye a, nou pran batay la (Now, we take the fight).”
This is how curses die. Not in whispers, but in the thunder of hammers reloading. Not in pleas, but in the war cry of a stew pot boiling over with poisoned silver.
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