The War Spy

Airport Madness

The taxi was on time and was waiting a few minutes already, I was glad because it was bitterly cold. I rubbed my hands and put on my gloves. Snow was forcasted for later in the day. "Good morning Madame." he said as he got out.

"Mornin," I said in my strong Korean accent.

I signalled for him to stop at the coffee shop.

"Morning Demetrio, just the regular please," I said.

"Morning Miss Nora off to buisness?" he asked.

"I am. I will sure miss you and your coffee."

"O Miss Nora send me a post card will you?"

I winked at him.

The roads were quite which helped to get to the airport quickly. I was reading in the car until I heard the gears changing lower and lower until we finally halted in to a stop. He parked right infront of the international departure drop off zone.

"Perfect, here you go and there's a tip for you." I said as I handed him the taxi fare.

"Have a safe trip Miss," he said as he stood my bag up.

I nodded gratefully. Trying to act in a robotic manner just like the traffic ladies in North Korea that I have been studying.

Even though the roads to the airport was quiet, the airport certainly wasn't, it was like a sea of faces moving into irregular and diffrent streams until they reached their destination. Monitor screens would change with departure times and arrivals all around the world. I heard mumblings and changing voices as people waited with anticipation to see their loved ones, others were emotional because they had to say good bye.

The queue was long and I overheard two Korean ladies talking about me. They were standing further back in the queue. "Is that Min-Hee Song?" the lady with a stripped umbrella asked her friend.

"It looks, it has to be, she is more beautiful in real life." 

"Who is next?" the counter attendant asked.

"Hi how are you today? Where are you off to today?"

"South Korea." I smiled. 

"Passport please."

He scanned the picture of me into the computer.

"Any areosaols or dangerous weapons.?" he asked as he loaded my bag onto the conveyor belt.

"No."

"Ok have a good flight you will departing from gate nine."

"Thanks," I said as I clicked my watch to load the gps map of my travel destination.

I was early and had plenty of time, I pulled out my spy pen and wrote to Eleina.

Dear Eleina,

All good so far, I am confidant I have everything I need, my watch is working perfectly and thanks for the new pen. Thanks for all your help making me look the part, I had compliments already today. I will write you at least once a week maybe twice and hopefully you can be dispatched soon, hopefully here with me after three months I could probably do with some compony.

Hugs Nora

It wat that time in the morning that I needed a coffee, so I headed over to the little french coffee shop right across from my departure gate. "Hello, how may I help?" The girl behind the counter was wearing a beret and the antique vintage broach on her left shoulder cought my eye.

"Hai some latte with shot of hazelnut please." I asked in my broken english.

"Not a problem, I will bring it out to you, take a seat."

I hooked my computer into a plug to keep the battary charged, I needed to check for emails and I had to re-read my paper letter to see if I had taken all the information into account, before I ripped it up and threw the pieces in diffrent bins. I knew this was a large team opperation, the taxi driver, the guy behind the airport desk and even this girl could all be apart of the team working with me. Head office would never tell us who were assigned with alongside us so that the whole thing would operate more smoothly. As for who was on my team the only one I was certain about was Eilena. She had been stationed at the salon for six months and as she told me got an extention for another three months.

"There you go, o if you need to post that there is a postbox jsut around the corner from here." the girl said as she came by to drop of my coffee.

"Thank you." I nodded making sincere eyecontact. As I looked back onto the table I saw pen ink customised to fit my pen. She was one of us, she was going to guard me as I opened the top secret documents.

I slipped out my assignment placing it inside the newspaper.