Ribbon of Fate [Book 5]

Blockade

"It's better to bite your tongue than to eat your words."
~Frank Sonnenberg
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Brian

I typed madly away on my laptop, switching between my article I planned on publishing (one day), the list of questions I created to ask Bryn and her cousins, and googling Bryn herself. Incredibly, next to nothing could be discovered about her on the internet. It was as if the government hid anything about her and her accomplishments. Did they do that intentionally? Or did she ask the government to hide her identity?

I wrote down the question on my document.

"What are you doing?" Felicity asked, crawling onto my bed next to me and handing me a beer. She took a sip of her own as I gave her a brief overview. "I swear your mind could power our country it runs so fast."

"Thanks. I think. What are you up to?"

"Just got off the phone with my dad and told him I'd be here until this storm blows over."

I snorted. "I'm sure he enjoyed hearing that."

"He's not worried about you. I also omitted the fact Bryn was here. I actually don't think he'd appreciate me being in a house with a relative stranger, war hero or not."

"Fair enough. Have you figured out where you think you know her from?"

Felicity rested her head on my shoulder. "No... it's on the tip of my tongue, but for the life of me, I can't think of it."

I gently knocked my head against hers. "You'll figure it out."

"I better, or you're going to have to institutionalize me because it's driving me crazy."

Closing my laptop and placing it on the floor, I said, "I'd be right there with you because I'd go crazy without you."

"That's weirdly sweet," Felicity remarked, laying back. I joined her, and we stared up at the snow through my skylight. "How did your dad react when you told him Mobius One herself was here?"

"Silent, at first, and then he told me to make sure she stays here until he gets home. I think he's desperate for answers and believes she holds some of them."

"Do you think she does?"

"They fought against each other, and they both won battles against the other, so it's definitely possible." The two of us watched the weather, contemplating all the possible scenarios of Bryn's potential influence on my dad's memories. However, my mind traveled down a rabbit hole of all the other things I learned about Bryn and her family, and I asked, "Can you believe Razgriz One, Galm One, and Talisman One are all related to Mobius One?"

"The odds are insane. I mean, just to have the four of them be in the same room out of the six billion people on Earth is-" Felicity paused, calculating the entire thing in her head- "something around zero-point-zero-zero-zero-zero- zero- zero- zero- six. I might be off by a zero, but you get my point. Now, adding in the probability that they all end up in the air force and become the ace pilots of their generation, it becomes infinitely more improbable."