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offering clipped to the
clipboard in the form of a coupon of some sort, was meanwhile
slitting the tourist’s fanny pack with a box cutter and stealing
both their identity and vacation money.
    The passerby stopping to pick up the $20
bill that fell from the person ahead of him before hurriedly
stuffing it into his own pocket, with a furtive glance around to
see if he’d been noticed.
    A tear slipped down Maria’s cheek and I
could sense through my shared conscious link with her that she was
panicking.
    “I don’t like this!” Maria said her words
almost sounding out as if they were one long groan of angst caused
by the turmoil that she felt all around her.
    “I don’t like it either Maria, but……”
    Maria vaulted out of her chair and shoved
through the people on the packed sidewalk to dive into the street
and scoop up a little boy that had wandered away from his
distracted tourist parents. She dodged out of the way of a
fast-moving taxi that would’ve ran over the little boy, even as a
slower moving taxi came to a screeching halt in front of Maria.
    With the taxis’ horn blaring loudly Maria
quickly stepped from the street and delivered the boy back to his
horrified parents. Maria waived away their copious ‘ Thank You’s ’
and started backing away into the crowd that had gathered, until
she pressed up against me.
    I leaned forward enough to whisper into her
ear, “but……… how does saving that little boy’s life make you feel
now? Worth risking some sanity for?”
    “Yes!” She breathed out.
    I took her hand then and led her out through
the crowd that already begun to break up.
    “What I do is a sacrifice Maria. It’s not
easy and I’d rather not do it most times. Moments like this can
make it worth it, but it’s still not easy. In fact it can be
downright tormenting! Are you sure you want this, because it’s not
too late to back out yet.”
    She seemed to have reached a calm level of
assurity and she responded back strongly, “I am fully committed to
doing what God has in store for me. I’m going to be around for the
long haul so stop trying to scare me off.”
    Some part of me rejoiced at her words, while
some part groaned. It was a tossup as to which was the stronger of
the two emotions.
    “Okay then.” I said resignedly.
    She was watching me and a smile had started
to come out on her face.
    “What?” I asked defensively.
    She shook her head in refusal to answer me,
which I didn’t like. Oh well there were a lot of things I didn’t
like about this working relationship, but I was stuck with it
now.
    I dug a credit card out and handed it to
her, “Use this to buy yourself some clothes and whatever items you
may need, but no more than what fits in a pack that you don’t mind
carrying the weight of. I recommend you get something comfortable
to walk in as I do quite a lot of walking at times. I’ll meet you
back at the café in a few hours and then we’ll leave the city.”
    I turned to go attend to my own needs when
she called out to me, “Elon?”
    I turned back.
    Maria looked as if she had something she
wanted to say, which she hesitantly put words to, “This work we’re
going to be doing is going to be dangerous no doubt. I imagine that
you also have some rather extreme enemies.”
    Maria paused for a moment and then patted
her side, “I have a 9mm, but that’s all I’ve got. You must have
twenty knives and assorted other devices stashed all over your
body. That silky shirt you’re wearing is some kind of light body
armor and I’d be willing to bet that your leather coat would stop a
high-powered rifle bullet. The point is I feel both underdressed
and under-armed for the fight. I’d like to armor up some more, if
it’s not too much trouble?”
    She had a valid point I had to admit.
    “On Robert Avenue off of 75th St. there is a
store called ‘Kinks of the Trade’. Tell the store owner my name and
she’ll get you anything you want.”
    Maria looked at me a little oddly