Fever Dream
“He dabbed the sweatband around his wrist against each temple in turn. His movements were slow, methodical, completely hidden in the labyrinth of brush.
It wasn’t really necessary to be so careful. There was no way the target would ever see him. However, years of hunting the other kind of prey—the four-legged variety, sometimes timid, sometimes preternaturally alert—had taught him to use exquisite caution.
It was a perfect blind, a large deadfall of oak, Spanish moss thrown across its fa...ce like spindrift, leaving only a few tiny chinks, through one of which he had poked the barrel of his Remington 40-XS tactical rifle. It was perfect because it was, in fact, natural: one of the results of Katrina still visible everywhere in the surrounding forests and swamps. You saw so many that you stopped noticing them.
That’s what the shooter was counting on.
The barrel of his weapon protruded no more than an inch beyond the blind.MoreLess
It wasn’t really necessary to be so careful. There was no way the target would ever see him. However, years of hunting the other kind of prey—the four-legged variety, sometimes timid, sometimes preternaturally alert—had taught him to use exquisite caution.
It was a perfect blind, a large deadfall of oak, Spanish moss thrown across its fa...ce like spindrift, leaving only a few tiny chinks, through one of which he had poked the barrel of his Remington 40-XS tactical rifle. It was perfect because it was, in fact, natural: one of the results of Katrina still visible everywhere in the surrounding forests and swamps. You saw so many that you stopped noticing them.
That’s what the shooter was counting on.
The barrel of his weapon protruded no more than an inch beyond the blind.MoreLess
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