SEVER ZERO
He reached out and snatched the smoking rifle from the hands of a trembling Ironhead ganger who looked barely out of his teens.
"You aren't holding a scrap-pipe nail gun anymore, kid," Leo scolded, his tone stern but not cruel. He effortlessly checked the rifle's chamber with his massive, armored fingers. "This is a mil-spec kinetic driver. It has recoil. It has bullet drop. If you jerk the trigger like you're trying to snap a chicken's neck, you're going to shoot the guy standing next to you."
Leo turned to the disorganized line of forty gangers and laborers standing in the mud. They were wearing a mismatch of dirty rags and high-end, composite-weave ballistic vests. It looked like a mediev