An Enemy Within
“She checked the time. It was almost 6.15. She groaned.
Her plan was to have had a lie-in, seeing she was not meeting McDermott’s CO until mid-morning. She tried to re-enter that warm, floating, solace of drowsiness, but flashes of her Kandahar nightmare surfaced causing her to start.
The shooting had stirred her brain anyway. It was now wide awake and urged her body to catch up. As she flung on her clothes, half of her wanted to ignore whatever had happened. The other half needed to know – a jo...urnalist’s instinct.
Checking the batteries in the Canon, she ran to the lift, sliding a spare pack into the knee pocket of her combat trousers and hiding the camera beneath her blouson.
She approached the reception desk, about to hand over her room key when she changed her mind, putting it in her pocket. She saw Kowolski’s room key still in its box. He was either up earlier than her – or had not been back to the hotel yet.
‘I heard shooting,’ she said to the clerk.
‘Yes, Miss – at the end of the street,’ he gestured.MoreLess
Her plan was to have had a lie-in, seeing she was not meeting McDermott’s CO until mid-morning. She tried to re-enter that warm, floating, solace of drowsiness, but flashes of her Kandahar nightmare surfaced causing her to start.
The shooting had stirred her brain anyway. It was now wide awake and urged her body to catch up. As she flung on her clothes, half of her wanted to ignore whatever had happened. The other half needed to know – a jo...urnalist’s instinct.
Checking the batteries in the Canon, she ran to the lift, sliding a spare pack into the knee pocket of her combat trousers and hiding the camera beneath her blouson.
She approached the reception desk, about to hand over her room key when she changed her mind, putting it in her pocket. She saw Kowolski’s room key still in its box. He was either up earlier than her – or had not been back to the hotel yet.
‘I heard shooting,’ she said to the clerk.
‘Yes, Miss – at the end of the street,’ he gestured.MoreLess
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