He might accidentally shoot me if I surprised him. He emptied a clip into bin Laden’s face, punching an assortment of holes through the wall in the process. “I was trying to have a conversation!” I yelled. wore his own earmuffs, his handgun raised in two hands, sighting at a picture of Osama bin Laden on the wall. Grumbling to myself, I grabbed the earmuffs hanging outside his door-I’d learned to keep them there-and pushed my way in. The gunshots coming from J.C.’s room popped like firecrackers. My hallucinations, however, are all quite mad. My name is Stephen Leeds, and I am perfectly sane. As the story begins, Leeds and his “aspects” are drawn into the search for the missing Balubal Razon, inventor of a camera whose astonishing properties could alter our understanding of human history and change the very structure of society. Stephen Leeds, AKA “Legion,” is a man whose unique mental condition allows him to generate a multitude of personae: hallucinatory entities with a wide variety of personal characteristics and a vast array of highly specialized skills. Enjoy this excerpt from Brandon Sanderson’s novella Legion, out today from Subterranean Press.
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