If he smokes, then I am leaving him far enough behind that I can cross that damn without being shot. I head for the dam, there is no choice, because the drop zone is on the other side of that dam. I have miscalculated the assassin's speed, or his sheer determination, and there are shots bouncing around me as I zig-zag my way across the dam. I have miraculously cleared the open space and I am now hidden again by the thick vegetation of the woods. There has to be a way to turn the table on the assassin. I spot a heavy tree stump, uprooted, it has left a deep gouging hole in the earth. I run ahead a short distance, giving the assassin, who is clearly a tracker, something to occupy him. I carefully back-track, fold myself into the hole where the roots of the tree stump were once buried deep in the earth, and I pull the near rotted out stump over me, concealing myself. I wait, the hunted is now the...
I smell the scent of cigarette smoke - he does smoke! I see his feet as he passes to the right of the stump. As he moves beyond, I see him studying the tracks I have left for him, then he stops, has a second of puzzlement, then he turns quickly and I shoot him in the heart. He doesn't know what happened to him, but watches with a dying despair as I push the stump away and come out of the hole. He is still dangerous, even though his hand holding the pistol is hanging limp at his side. I shoot him again, and he crumples to the ground. This is war. "People kill and are killed in war," I silently reminded myself. I drag him back to the stump hole, dump his body in and place the stump over him. it's cold, his body won't be found until spring. I'm careful to obliterate all signs of what just happened. I'm heading for the pick-up site.
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