Freedom Express by Mack Maloney

Author:Mack Maloney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-11-26T03:27:54+00:00

Chapter 38

Aboard the Freedom Express

Hunter sneezed once, hard.

"It's too strong," he said to himself. "Damn stuff is clogging my nostrils."

He reached over to the cup of water next to his chair and threw half of it on the incense that was burning in a makeshift urn nearby.

But the spray of water only increased the amount of pungent smoke drifting around the dark cabin.

"It's all right, Hawk," Diamond called over to him. "I think you are getting use to it."

The train was moving slowly-painfully so. He could feel

every jolt and bump, every quake and quiver as it sluggishly wound its way through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

It had been like this for nearly a day and a half.

He closed his eyes and returned to his meditation.

If you must attack an enemy far away, create the illusion that you are only going a short distance.

"I understand that," he whispered.

But if the enemy is nearby, trick him into thinking that you are going a long way. "That is clear too."

He had finally stopped questioning the strange intonations in his head; finally stopped worrying about where they came from or why. For many reasons, his concern for his own sanity was secondary right now. He had more important things to do.

It had been the voices that convinced him that the Freedom Express should carry on-though explaining his elaborate plan to Jones and the others had been one of the most difficult things he had ever done. Something was happening to him, he tried to tell them. Something deep inside. If they just followed his advice-as he received it from deep in his psyche-there was a chance the train, or some part of it, would reach LA.

But they had to trust in his instinct more than they had ever done before.

Predictably, JT had been the hardest to convince. He

thought the whole thing smacked of the New Age channeling craze of years back-supernatural voices coming through human mediums.

Hunter tried to explain to his friend that it was nothing like that, but the sometimes hotheaded pilot remained unconvinced.

And at times, Hunter wasn't entirely sure his friend was not right.

Fitz, Crunch and the Cobra Brothers didn't know what to

think that day after Jones had cancelled the mission when, during a completely bizarre meeting, Hunter spelled out his strange plan to them. They had seen him in action before -had seen his gambles pay off. But it was a little too much for them to watch as Hunter sat, eyes closed, deep in a trance, spewing out ancient-sounding adages on military strategy and tactics while a stick of homemade incense burned nearby. Even Michael

Crossbow, he being a student of myths and legends, was baffled by it all, especially when Hunter suggested that he become a ghost and go on a very dangerous solo mission.

Oddly, only Ben Wa seemed to fully understand. Before he

"abandoned" the train with the others, he had urged Hunter to go with the strange feelings.

"I don't know what's happening to you," the Oriental fighter pilot had told him.

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