Inferno (Kelly Turnbull Book 7) by Schlichter Kurt

Author:Schlichter, Kurt [Schlichter, Kurt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kurt Schlichter
Published: 2022-10-11T00:00:00+00:00

Colonel Duncan (HE/HIM) walked into the tactical assembly area on main post just after dawn and quickly identified the sergeant who was probably in charge. Dozens of vehicles were getting ready to move, with troops filling them in nothing resembling military order. Turnbull knew their destination: a little town on the forward line of troops called Cle Elum.

“Sergeant,” Turnbull said, his ruck over his shoulder. “I need a lift in your convoy. I’m heading south too.”

The sergeant regarded the colonel with misery. This was just what he needed.

“Colonel, can you ride with the battalion commander?”

“No,” Turnbull said. The battalion commander might have known Colonel Duncan. For all he knew, Colonel Duncan was the brigade commander.

“I am on the down-low. Put me in with the troops. I’ll sit in a truck. I want it low key. My movement south is top secret.”

“Okay,” said the dubious NCO. He smelled bullshit, like any NCO in any army would, but he also understood that whatever problem this weird colonel might be was not his problem.

“Colonel, why don’t you ride in Alpha-46?”

Turnbull/Duncan smiled and nodded. Then he got up into the truck.

He slept most of the way. The enlisted soldiers did not speak to him and instead griped non-stop – about the food, the leadership, the rampant atmosphere of cisgender paradigm reinforcement.

It was a long but pleasant drive, in the sense that Duncan/Turnbull could look out the back at the passing forests and mountains. The blues had not gotten around to ruining all of nature yet. The antics of humans seemed to make no difference to it, which he somehow found reassuring.

Outside the town of Cle Elum, with a few miles to go to the forward operating base, the truck got off the interstate and came to a stop in a back-up of trucks on a surface street. Turnbull stood up and looked at the troops. He put his finger to his mouth and said, “Shhhhhh.”

The troops watched silently as the colonel went over the tailgate and dropped down onto the road, then disappeared into the woods. The troops went back to griping.

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