Century #4: Dragon of Seas

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Author: Pierdomenico Baccalario
cartoon is asking if she can get through. Harvey unbuckles his seat belt, gets up, smiles ashe lets her take her seat and opens the paper again. The woman starts to grapple with her seat belt.
    “Dammit,” Harvey says, making her turn to look at him.
    The article is brief, just a few lines long. THE BRONX. FIRE IN GYM .
    Harvey reads it all in a flash.
    “Dammit!” he bursts out again when he learns that the gym in question is Olympia’s. His gym.
    The woman in the next seat glares at him, but Harvey doesn’t have time for formalities. He takes his cell phone out of his pocket and turns it on. He looks through his contacts for Olympia’s number and calls her.
    “You can’t keep your cell phone on during takeoff,” the woman in 14F points out.
    Harvey turns the other way. “Pick up,” he says as he listens to the slow succession of rings. “Come on, Olympia, pick up.”
    When his boxing trainer answers on the fifth ring, he can finally breathe again.
    “It’s Harvey. I read the news in the paper. What happened?”
    “Harvey! I tried calling you at home! Where are you?”
    “On a plane for Shanghai. I just boarded and … darn it, can’t you sit still one minute?” he snaps at the woman next to him, who’s trying to get up.
    Meanwhile, Olympia says over the phone, “You’ve got to be careful! It was those damn women.”
    “What women?” Harvey asks. Then he shouts, “The ones from Lucifer? Nose’s women?”
    The woman next to him waves her arm to catch the flight attendant’s attention.
    “Exactly. They dumped gasoline all over the gym and set fire to it. When no one was there training, luckily,” Olympia says.
    “How can you be so sure it was them?”
    “They called me at home to let me know.”
    Harvey’s head is spinning: the women working for Egon Nose, the man who was sent in to track them down in New York. The lord of nightclubs.
    “Nose got out of prison, Harvey,” Olympia goes on. “Three days ago. And he didn’t waste any time. This was only a warning. For us … and for you. Is there anyone at your place?”
    “Just … my mom,” Harvey whispers.
    “Warn her. Warn her right away! It could be dangerous!”
    Harvey ends the call, dazed. He calls his home number.
    “Excuse me, sir,” says a kind voice above him. “You need to turn off your phone.”
    Harvey looks up at the flight attendant, but he’s so lost in thought that he doesn’t even see her.
    The line is free. One ring. Two rings. Three rings.
    “Sir,” the flight attendant says again, “I need to ask you to hang up.”
    Harvey raises his palm defensively and holds up his finger, motioning for her to wait a second, it’s important.
    Four rings. Five rings.
    On the sixth, the answering machine picks up. “This is the Miller residence. We’re not at home right now. Leave a message after—”
    Harvey almost loses his grip on the phone. From her seat, the woman in 14F reaches over and snatches it out of his hand. “That’s enough, young man!”
    “Gimme my phone back, now! It’s important!” Harvey protests.
    But the cantankerous woman snaps it shut and hands it to the flight attendant. “Here, you keep it. And don’t worry, miss. I’m a math teacher. I know how to handle troublemakers like him.”
    Harvey is dumbstruck. He’d love to tell her off and take back his phone, but he doesn’t have the strength to do anything: he sits there, perfectly still, as if paralyzed, staring at the wings of the plane as they begin to shudder over the runway.
    Egon Nose got out of prison.
    And he’s really angry.

A N INTERCONTINENTAL PHONE CALL PIERCES THE E ARTH ’ S ATMOSPHERE to be picked up and relayed by a private satellite in orbit over the skies of China.
    “Heremit,” a voice replies.
    “Heh, heh, heh, old boy!” Dr. Nose exclaims. “It’s a voice from the grave!”
    “Egon.”
    “Always in an excellent mood, aren’t you?” says the old owner of Lucifer. His voice brims with tension. “Want me to
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