“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
-Tennessee Williams-
Chapter 126: I see a lot of things
After a short period of eerie silence, there was the first step...
The first shipment went missing without noise.
That was what unsettled Dominique most-- nobody taking ownership of their attack. She knew who it was, but without anybody announcing their intent-- she couldn't take any steps without facing backlash for the underground. It was a cold war.
No explosions. No burned trucks left as exclamation marks. No bodies arranged for spectacle. Just a delay. A route that never completed itself. A driver who checked in once, normally, and then didn’t check in again.
By dawn, the manifests said everything had arrived-- not a single thing gone nor replaced...
Reality disagreed.
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