night of 4/13/13

as our final action, we were supposed to have sabotaged the warships across the strait that separates this island. some of us have a rapport with animals. dolphins planting explosives on hulls. i'm close with the animal handlers.

we're done now and shutting the operation down. cleaning up the space that's essentially an office, despite being a small clearing on the jungle island. computers, papers, furniture. i come across a picture of a young native boy helping me build a rope bridge; he was special to me.

i haven't been too careful with security. i have classified stuff lying around in piles as we organize. the security people show up and i have a stack of documents that shouldn't be out. luckily, on the top of them there's some kids' books, they don't pay attention to it right away. i pick up the stack, hoping it would remain disguised as i carry it away. passing my friend in the next office/clearing down, i joke that now my day is easier, since the auditors are packing my things up and carting them away for me.

now i'm in the corporate headquarters looking for a place to stash the papers. some large rolling containers under a stairwell blocking a door. i roll them back. the door is only painted on. voices and shadows in the stairwell. the only way is up. on the roof there is a superstructure that i climb. i sit in the seat of one of the anti-aircraft guns, which i point down to the expanse of grass on the forward roof. i fire a single shot. the lights come on for only a moment, but surely the alarm has sounded. i scoot down to the grass, running a pattern that puts each of the motion-sensing lights on only for a moment, not enough to catch me on the cameras. to the edge of the roof, and over.

here is where a great face fronts the building, like Rushmore. i shimmy down to a dark nook on the brow. lights are coming on. i am waiting for the rescue i'd arranged. out of the dark sky comes my handler friend, clutched by an enormous bird. surrounded by other birds of all sizes.

[i was a woman.]