Tales of the Courier – The Right Turn Refuge
The right time is the best time. Or was it the other way around? 1courier grins. And he thinks about all the variations. The road is hot, and it’s still early enough in the day for a good sunburn. So he walks on.
Thirty minutes ago, he watched his ride disappear into a large hole in the ground. He hadn’t been invited. So he was walking back to HQ. Furthermore, it was over three thousand miles away. Therefore 1courier expects to be late. He grins again, as he hot foots it down the road.
However, he feels like this new delivery system can use some tweaking. And what was the deal with the mind reading? Was that a part of the new ride design? Has HQ finally figured out how to connect the machine to the courier?
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Thinking back on the ride from earlier today it seems strange that he couldn’t make the connection then. Furthermore, it must have been all the chit chat distracting him. He switches sides of the road. After a few more minutes he checks the m-com link again.
However, it remains inactive. As it has since the ride went underground. It just didn’t make sense. He stumbles across a pothole. The heat rises and the day wears on. 1courier stops. Something is coming.
This isn’t intuition. In fact, he knows something is coming. Just like he knows there are no potholes on Deritrous, and certainly not on Nalphia. The self repairing roads prevented it. So what had he just tripped over? He turns to take a closer look, but his attention is drawn to the horizon instead.
A sleek and extremely fast shape is blistering across the distant expanse. It will be passing by here in a matter of minutes. 1courier wonders about the pothole again. He looks, but the road is unblemished. Unusual.
Right turn refuge
Three minutes later, the sound of an approaching vehicle is unmistakable. And 1courier pauses mid stride. He has also just received a message. Furthermore, the m-com link is still down. This message was of a completely different kind.
He moves to the side of the road, and watches the lightning fast machine bear down on his location. He is curious to see what will happen as the machine screeches to a halt right beside him. At the same time, the m-com link fires up. He waits for it, and isn’t disappointed, as a voice quips up from the ride:
“Howdy partner, need a lift?”
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