10 minutes before

James grabbed his injured shoulder and winced in pain as he opened the armrests around it. He raised his elbow to stretch the movement of the injured shoulder joint again. Painfully and a bit breathless, he stood in front of an old mirror to exercise his left hand. James took a shotgun on his right side and loaded all the bullets one by one with a bit of gasp.

After cocking it, James tried to aim at it with both hands. The pain in his shoulder was no longer ...