9 Shake the cobwebs out of my head. It doesn’t take an Einstein to know that someone slipped a mickey into my drink. That someone being the friendly flight attendant. “O’ Kali!” The pilot is shouting. “O’ Kali mother!” There’s something going on with his eyes. They are wide, unblinking, and glowing, like an energy from within is being released. A bad energy. A wicked energy. Just the sight of them steals my breath away. Slipping my hand inside my jacket for my .45, it’s not there. Pilot took it off of me earlier. I could dig through my jacket pocket for my Swiss Army Knife, but no time for that. Instead, I dump my drink, crack it against the edge of a solid plastic and faux wood tray, breaking the glass to form a crude knife. A swift kick knocks it out of my hand. Raising m

