“You don’t think it was the La Chacal and her bandido thugs already?” Rick mused. “She couldn’t have known we were coming … could she?”
“The way things have been playing out, it wouldn’t surprise me if we were double humped and La Chacal knew we were coming even before we know we were coming. HQ seems to have more holes in it than mom’s fancy brass strainer. That is why we have to play this as unpredictable as La Chacal plays her games.”
“She is one crafty, she-devil of a redbone marauder if there ever was one. I have never seen anyone who is always four or five steps ahead of chiefs.” Rick said as be began to climb a thirty-foot cliff with Barrett.
“Right now there is no way of knowing who is behind us but I would bet my tail fur it is them.” Barrett replied as he jumped the last 8 feet of the cliff with easy and peered back into the raining twilight.
Unseen by the two coontail brothers, a figure stood about two miles off on a towering spire of red Navaho sandstone. His face was hid under a black cowboy hat and the bulk of an thermal imaging scope. He could see the two brothers heat glowing like a naval flare shot agains a black sky in the middle of the Indian Ocean. There was no where for these boys to hide!
The figure lowered the optics to reveal hard yellow eyes and a face not even a mother would want to love. The left side of his face sported three deep ugly scars that ran clean through the back of his left ear along his cheek and out to tip of his elongated nose. He smiled at the futility of the two fleeing brothers attempt at stealth.
This would be easy. He turned and gave a sharp but deep whistle. He was calling his pack out for the hunt.