“Things’ll kill you.” Atriya remarked.

Han laughed. It came out hollow and acrid….“These things?” He lifted his cigarette and raised an eyebrow. “They take the edge off the pointless bulls**t I have to put up with every day.”

He took a long, shamelessly pleasurable drag on the cigarette and blew out smoke in an equally decadent exhale. “Now think on that and tell me I’m not dead already.”

-Echo Volume 1, Chapter 9  Buy Echo on Kindle here:  Echo on Kindle or on other eReaders here:  Echo on other eReaders