Richmond Rail Heist #2-9

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NOTE: This entry follows entry #8

The two Southerners disappeared into the church, leaving the three Northerners alone to continue east toward Chattanooga. Some minutes later the road turned into a wood, sheltering them from the sun, and soon after they heard a horse coming up behind them. They turned to face the rider, who was hidden in the trees.

“You remember seeing a horse in that village?” Rufus asked.

“No,” said Will. “But that doesn’t mean there weren’t any.”

Jones said that there might have one in the barn, and for a minute or two conversation devolved into a discussion of whether there had been a barn at all, with Jones swearing that there had been, Rufus sure that there had only been houses and the church, and Will unable to remember. “Well, here he comes, whoever he is,” he said as the rider began to appear through the trees.

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He held onto the crate and considered. The Spanish frigate continued to trade shots with the English brigs, and it was apparent even to him that both sides had scored some important shots. One of Badger’s upper masts leaned drunkenly; a horizontal mast, or spar, or yard aboard the other English brig hung crookedly; and turning to his left he saw that the Spaniard’s sails, peeking above clouds of white smoke, now contained several holes. None of the ships were particularly close.

Behind him and to his right lay the ruined mole, with the beach a bit further on. Some crumbling steps led from the water up to the mole. A low hum and a sudden splash not many yards away brought him back to the present: whatever the solution was, staying here was not it. “Si Dios quiere,” he told the cat, following that observation with some of the choicer oaths of his teenaged years when a cannonball smashed into the water behind him, sending up a geyser that collapsed onto his head.

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As soon as he hit the water, Patrick realised that this might not be such as good idea. The Badger, which had looked small from on deck (and positively diminutive alongside the Viceroy) now loomed over him, looking unnaturally large and shrouded in smoke. The Spaniard, now only a few dozen yard away, looked if anything bigger. She was also wreathed in smoke, and as Patrick looked at her something blinked orange and stirred in the heart of the grey-white cloud, raced across the water and vanished over Patrick’s head.

He kicked powerfully, flapping his arms and heaving himself out of the water as he looked around. The cat stood on a crate perhaps 40 yards away, scrambling to stay dry as the box pitched and heaved. “I’ll be lucky not to get a face full of claws,” Patrick said as he swam over, stopping perhaps a yard from the animal, whose increasingly panicked movements were causing the box to rock with increasing violence. “Perhaps if I simply push the crate over to the ship, or the shore,” he said. “Who could I possibly be talking to?”

He reached out and touched the box, then grasped it more firmly, steadying it. The cat, no longer threatened with falling into the water and instant dissolution, sat at the far end of the crate and stared at him. It was solid black, its pupils were wide open, making its eyes black as well, and its tail thrashed from side to side. It would have nothing to do with an offered finger, merely shuffling further away from Patrick, who gave up after one attempt. “Well,” he said, looking around and finding the Badger at last, “I suppose I’ll have to get you aboard, though I confess I have no idea how to do so.”

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The parts of a rotating light

The parts of a rotating light:
top: the fully assembled light, showing the light, its power cord, and a mirror to be used when the light is mounted in the windshield or rear window.
middle: the light with the mirror removed and set aside.
bottom: the light with the green dome removed, revealing the electric motor in the front, the incandescent lamp in the center, and the rotating reflector toward the back.  The incandescent lamp remains fixed in place while the reflector revolves around it, creating a rotating beam of light.