The focus challenge – Tales of the Courier
The road is an exciting mix of mystery and the familiar. Anyone using the road for an extended time, appreciates the familiar. Similarly, since the road is an ever changing forward moving story, it is an adventure above all else. 1courier grins as he downshifts the ride. He is waxing introspective. Therefore, he must begin waning his internal reflections. He grins again, and pushes the ride for all it’s worth.
On down the map, there is a drop-off location. However, at the moment, 1courier is watching the horizon. There was something more there, a few moments ago. Now, it is just the setting sun. And, open sky. He knows the strange object was there, because he saw it disappear. In fact, it seemed to be hovering. Then it blinks away into the evening sky.
He continues watching the horizon with one eye, and the road with the other. What if it returns? Should he get a video of it? He sets the dash camera to record at the slightest touch. The m-com link flashes. HQ was sending an update. Additionally, it was an unplanned update. Ordinarily, this would be cause for alarm. However, the focus challenge today, is to complete the task at hand. While preparing for the next.
The Focus Challenge
The task at hand. 1courier races down the road, and ponders. The road is old, and worn. If not for the – PHASED (Pot Hole Active Sweep Elimination Device) system, it would be almost impossible to use. He was only fifty miles in, and 1,342 potholes had already been avoided. Furthermore, he still had another thirty miles to roll down this stretch of highway.
With this in mind, he begins digging on the radio. Surely there was something other than news to listen to. Within five minutes, the left rear begins making that damn sound again. Only this time it has an extra thwump sping effect. This can’t be good. Did it mean there was about to be a blowout?
It was back. Just hovering there in the dusk of the horizon. 1courier blinks, expecting the object to blink out of existence again. It remains. Both, in the sky of the horizon, and motionless. It is damn sure a vessel, of some kind. And it’s watching him. He floors the accelerator pedal. And with increasing curiosity, he races toward the unknown craft.
Tales of the Courier
The m-com link flashes again. The drop-off location has been updated. It is now closer than before. Of course this isn’t unexpected. However, the song he just found on the radio is, and he maxes the volume. Now things are picking up. Or, hopping, as the case may be. According to the navigation system he would be at the drop-off, within minutes.
Moreover, the strange hovering object was still visible. And closer. In fact, it is damn near where the updated drop-off point, is located. Now that weird noise on the left rear, sounds like it is actually on the right rear. This is getting him nowhere. The song on the radio was already half way through, when he found it. A half song is just a tease.
Now the PHASED system goes offline. The ride begins bouncing, and slamming potholes, with resounding force. 1courier tiptoes around the worst of them, but without the advanced pothole dampening system, the road was a total crap shoot. The good news is the noise from the right rear, was no longer a worry. At all. This really didn’t matter much, because the hovering craft already zapped the ride with a funky glowing light. And then 1courier, ride and all, blink clean out of sight.
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