The Portable Nine by Pete Mesling

Author:Pete Mesling [Mesling, Pete]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-21T22:00:00+00:00

He dropped a hundred-dollar bill in the man’s lap and said, “So, do you have time to drive four very tired men down to the Regal?”

“Uh, yeah. I guess I could do that. It’ll be a little tight. One of you can sit up front, of course.”

“Sounds good—” Robin glanced at the man’s identification card, which was affixed to the dashboard and featured the same neatly folded blue turban he was currently wearing. “—Ashar. We’ll probably nap the whole way anyway. If there’s still a decent hard rock station in this town, crank it up. That shit’s like a lullaby to me.” He peeled off his jacket and tossed it onto the backseat, being sure to open and close the door as loudly as possible. Twitch picked up on the ruse and went around to do the same with the two doors on the other side of the cab.

“You got it, boss,” Ashar said, dutifully tuning the radio to KISW, which an instantly obnoxious deejay informed anyone within earshot was at 99.9 megahertz on the radio dial.

Robin gave the driver the okay sign and watched him turn his Orange Cab around and send it flying down the road. Strains of “Sweet Child o’ Mine” drifted from the cab, warped a little by the car’s increasing distance. About time for a classic hard rock station, Robin thought, feeling a little old.

“This is a new path for the Portable Nine,” Abel said as they strolled in the direction the taxi had just gone off in. “Or should I say for the Portable Seven? We’ve never turned on our own before.”

“They turned on us first,” Twitch was quick to point out.

“True enough,” said Abel, “but there is one fact that none of this changes. Unity is our greatest strength. We’re nothing scattered to the winds.

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