- "Sorry ah'm late everybody." says sonny boy Jenkins as he comes into the dining room. He's a lean long faced man with dark hair and a wide brimed hat. "This th' bank we're watchin?" He gives a low whistle. " 's a nice place. So,how we gonna do this?"
- "With two Fades, we could have someone in the vault itself," Richter says.
- "That is good...and I could easily set up an array to alert us if they try to fly in. Wing beats from something the size of a human will stand out tremendously from background noise." Mr. Bor says. "I do not know if I can do anything to detect them on the ground. If I had detailed recordings of their voices I could easily find them with hidden microphones set in a radius around the building, If they spoke... If had a week or two, or a month, to study how they walk, and then convinced the city to install very sensitive seismographs under the sidewalks..." He trails off into thought.
- "So it looks like our biggest advantage will be information," says Richter, taking notes. "We'll hear where they are; my spirits can track them anywhere. We could just wait for the bird-lady to get a few steps away from her friends, then Fade her right through the wall, and scram!"
"That puts me, Janet, Kaze, and Michael on either watching the hoods or making the snatch. Sky, Sonny-Boy, we'll need you to watch for pursuit and keep their heads down if they come after us. I guess I'll drive; I can command my spirits from the driver's seat until it's time to move. That is, if they're kindly disposed that day, which is always in question. Spirits are jerks, mostly." - "Everyone's heeled, right?" he says, patting his shoulder holster. "If not, no harm; we'll stop by Sears Roebuck for rifles and Tommy guns before heading over to the bank."
Friday, August 8, 2014
A Plan For Kidnapping
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Sky looks at the plans again. "So, we going to stuff this bird woman in a sack? It would be better to cool our heals until after the robbery is over and done, and she is spending money on a new hat or some other feminine frivolity, and sidle up and invite her out for a drink in Havana, and slip a Mickey Finn into her glass sly-like, so that she'z will be snoozing forty winks without more commotion.
ReplyDelete"I ain't hitting no doll. It's bad luck."
"Apart from Havana, I like it," says Richter. "Cuba's too hot. Or ... say, why don't we do the same thing here in Nebraska? If she's in town, Sky, you can make your play before they hit the bank!"
ReplyDelete"Let me just commune with the spirits ... same to you ... no! I told you no. Don't make me ... just a minute, Alclomdrexl, I'm talking to Hookreel right now ..."
Richter's face twitches. He scowls. He stands up quickly.
"Excuse me, won't you? This is going to take a while ... don't you talk that way to me! Smileworm, you see Hookreel, don't you? Well, Hookreel, as a mortal man I can't touch you, but you know Smileworm CAN ..."
He leaves the salon, taking his portfolio. The bank diagram is still there.
"Hey, boss," says the Filipino headwaiter, "he already signed the chit. Anything you want, it's paid for! But, uh, we're out of shrimp."
"I'd like more tea, if you'd be so kind." Janet said, setting down her her empty cup,then turned to address the knights, "Okay, let me make sure I got this. First, our we hiding at the bank to snatch them when they come, preferably after they've done their show and used up power. Or are we tracking them back to a hid out. And are we going for a fight, or can we slip in quietly to knock them out, because if we're doing that I bet I could get us some nice knock-out darts." The headwaiter came back with her tea, and after thanking him she continued. "But if there's going to be a fire fight I'm going to need a gun. All I got are my two good butchers knives, though I got pretty good with them carving chickens at the butchers shop. Although..." She added thoughtfully, "I suppose I could go gray to get through any bullets, have a handful of glass or rock or something, then stick my hand in and drop it somewhere inside them. That could distract them, or if I put it in the right spot kill them. But only it necessary. And we want them alive, correct?"
ReplyDelete"We certainly wish the bank guards and the law-abiding citizens to be alive," muses Kaze.
ReplyDeleteShe does not touch what they call the tea.
"And it is not clear if the young woman with wings is with them willingly."
"Depending on the placement of the handful of rocks, you might cause a dire medical event. Perhaps an acceptable risk, depending on the nature of the mission? But it must be considered."
"They are also actively recruiting. Perhaps one of us could join them. Briefly."
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