Outgoth The Goth

Chapter 7 - The art of war

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Outgoth the Goth

Chapter 7 – The art of war.

No One's POV.

Jade made herself some pasta with alfredo sauce and sat down with the Art of War book. Surprisingly Jade found the book to be quite interesting.

The book itself is laid out into chapters dealing with such topics as, Laying Plans, Tactical Dispositions, Weak Points and Uses of Spies. What Jade appreciated was that many of the lessons from the book by Sun Tzu, were written very generally so they could be applied to many different situations.

Not everything in the book could be used by Jade, but she found several passages she felt were useful. She made a point to underline them.

Those included

"All warfare is based on deception. Hence when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; When using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near; we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near."

And

"Ponder and deliberate before you make a move."

And

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

A lot of the things were common sense, but reading it all at once put Jade in more of a tactical mindset.

After she had finished the book, which wasn't terribly long, she instead of sitting down for a horror movie marathon, she poured herself a bottle of wine and sat by the pool in the back yard thinking over what had happened and what should happen next.

"I've had two near misses with death in the last few days. I could call the police, but tell them what? That a light nearly fell on me and I was nearly t-boned by a garbage truck. A garbage truck whose license plate I did not get. I could tell that I think a certain person was behind them. I got nothing, nada, no evidence and they'd probably lock me up before they did her. She'd come out on top and I'd come across looking like I'd lost my marbles. Maybe I have lost my marbles. Freak accidents do happen." Jade said aloud before taking a long drink of her wine.

She would sit there until the whole bottle of wine was gone, thinking about it all.

Jade spent the next day, Sunday, at home, a small part of her wanting to avoid tempting fate, but she mostly stayed home to work on a project for scriptwriting class and a paper for history. Her thoughts frequently drifted to Tori and what could she possibly see in that dark cloud.

By Sunday, the itch to reach out to Tori started to become just a bit too much. That and she wanted to know just how meeting Wednesday's parents went.

"At least then, Addams can't show up and interrupt." Jade thought happily after coming up with a suitable excuse to call.

Jade dialed and after 3 rings, she heard a familiar voice on the other end.

"Hello Jade. What do you need?" Said Tori, in a cautious tone.

Slightly put off by Tori assuming yet again she needed something, Jade huffed. "Vega, What makes you think I need something."

"Because you never call me. Unless you want something."

Jade had to admit that Vega was right and silently cursed herself.

"OK, you're right, I forgot to write it down, Did Sikowitz tell us to read to page 150 or 170 in the reading assignment for class?"