Crystal Killer (The Unit Book 4) by Anne Fox

Author:Anne Fox [Fox, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781950389087
Publisher: Star on the Mountain Books LLC
Published: 2019-05-06T22:00:00+00:00

Edge walked into the conference room for the team’s morning meeting prior to training exercises. Voice was already there, sitting with a banana in front of him and wearing a pair of nitrile gloves.

“May I ask what you’re doing?” Edge asked.

Voice was concentrating intently on the banana in front of him. Picking up a curved needle with what looked like a short-jawed pair of forceps, he said, “Practicing my suturing.”

“And here I didn’t even know bananas bled,” Crow said, joining the duo.

“Very funny,” Voice said. Holding up the scissor-like instrument, he said, “Needle driver.” Grasping the curved needle with it, he inserted the needle on one side of a slit in the banana skin, then pushed it through to the other side, leaving a couple of inches of thread on one side. Wrapping the longer piece of thread around the needle driver a couple of times, he then grasped the short end of the thread and pulled it through. Wrapping the long end around the needle driver just once, he again pulled the short end through. “One more for good measure...” he mumbled, pulling the short end through again.

He sat back and looked at it, then took a pair of scissors and cut the thread so only a half inch was left to either end. Looking at it again, he proclaimed, “Not bad, Voice.”

“I agree,” Spud said from where he was looking over Voice’s shoulder.

“So next time Hank gets gashed, I drop her pants and do the suturing,” Voice said.

“Not a chance, Buddy. Not if I’m around,” Spud said.

“Sheesh. Then what am I learning this for?” Voice said.

“If Edge gets a big ol’ gash where Hank got hers, you can suture him,” Spud said, sitting at the table.

“Spoilsport,” Voice said, taking up the needle again and stitching another spot on the banana skin.

“Good morning, everyone,” Doc Andy said, coming into the room and taking a seat at the table.

A general mumbling of greetings went around the table.

“I take it from the enthusiastic response that no one is particularly anxious to discuss today’s topic,” Doc Andy said.

“It isn’t the easiest topic to discuss,” Crow acknowledged.

“Hm. But I can understand why Hank brought it up. She is certainly correct that it’s difficult to know what the consequences are for any action or inaction. For the assassination mission, there was obviously a good outcome to an inaction, even though that inaction wasn’t planned. So, does anyone have some insight into how the team should weigh which missions you should choose in the future?” Doc Andy asked.

“No mission is ever mandatory,” Hank observed. “It’s up to us to decide if the mission is warranted and if we have the resources to complete it.”

“That’s true,” Crow agreed. “But you might remember a little acronym you learned in ground school, Hank. DECIDE.”

“Would you care to let us in on this?” Doc Andy asked.

“It stands for the following items, which are done in order,” Crow said. “Detect that action is needed, Estimate its significance, Choose the desired outcome, Identify what’s needed to achieve the desired outcome, Do it, and Evaluate the effects.

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