Colonel Crystal's Parallel Universe by Hufferd James;

Author:Hufferd, James;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Trine Day
Published: 2019-02-21T23:49:40+00:00

XXVII

And the Beat Goes On

That evening, back home, the unpleasantness of the airport reunion was forgotten. After a three-hour nap to rest from the trip, Felicia seemed jubilant, her mood as light-hearted as Colonel Alva had seen it in two years.

Yet the Colonel started to worry as to how he could proceed with what he considered his work, and she said was just “meddling." They had been at odds over his sudden, drastic change of attitude since their courtship, after his resignation and return from the Middle East. And now, with his new stronger commitment, indeed, how could he proceed?

So, what did she expect him to do with his time, day after day? Eat breakfast, take out the garbage, walk her little dog, fresh back from the kennel, fix the TV, buy gas for the car, and then what? Forget or stifle his own notions and ideas, to try to live up to her vision of a perfect Southern, conservative gentleman and distinguished military veteran? All while mouthing cherished platitudes, based on lies about America’s eternal righteousness and exceptional right and obligation to forcibly put recalcitrant foreigners in their place? Even if that place was under the sod? Is that what she wanted his life to amount to?

Like hell I would! he thought, to himself.

But her sentiments must be honored, too, in some way, at least not be blown up in her face.

So, how was he to press forward, given all that?

* * *

In consequence, he determined to move ahead in another direction. At least, for the present.

And so, he got back to his former ‘FIB’ insider contact, Fred Geselle, by email, and got him to send down, by certified mail, a list of publicly-known agency operatives, broken down by department, to comb using the murky clue he had been tossed as to who might reasonably be suspected of systematically targeting a figure considered problematic, like Will Goldsby.

Tangentially, he rolled over in his mind again his purpose, as he saw it, for his limited involvement in a matter so apparently wrongheaded as protecting a possible scalawag who had done some good. What was the point? Nothing more (nor less) than promoting fairness for all. All. Fairness, he thought, may even be impossible, as some that he called “knee-jerks” loved to point out. But seeking it isn’t.

That message duly sent and received, he settled into forwarding the task of securing the tranquility of his mercurial and sensitive wife, until he could figure out how to proceed with his principal appointed task – that of an ex-Colonel working in questionable collaboration with a likewise rogue ex-General, to subdue dangerous windmills. No doubt thankless work.

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