The Towers
“Teddy sat with boots planted wide and forty pounds of C4 explosive strapped to his chest, letting the vibration lull him. Almost not believing it was actually coming off. Across from him Oz, Scooper, and Smeg stared sleepily back or avoided his eyes. They’d had to leave Foss behind; the scorpion-fish sting was infected; he might lose the foot. Catron was still in pain, but had fought off the doctors, insisting he could see well enough to fight.
But what lay at the end of this flight … the thoug...ht crawled like a rash itch up inside Teddy’s backbone, ran like startled ants out along his upper arms.
No one knew what they were flying into. They were supposed to be in and out before the Taliban command, whatever was left of it, knew they were there. But that was how a lot of operations had started, and not how all of them had worked out.
The helicopter throbbing around him was Air Force, a nonreflective, dead-black Pave Low bird that seemed like the biggest aircraft Teddy had ever been aboard.MoreLess
But what lay at the end of this flight … the thoug...ht crawled like a rash itch up inside Teddy’s backbone, ran like startled ants out along his upper arms.
No one knew what they were flying into. They were supposed to be in and out before the Taliban command, whatever was left of it, knew they were there. But that was how a lot of operations had started, and not how all of them had worked out.
The helicopter throbbing around him was Air Force, a nonreflective, dead-black Pave Low bird that seemed like the biggest aircraft Teddy had ever been aboard.MoreLess
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