Liberation Movements

Libarid

I was wrong.

Another gunshot, and then the plane shifts, the floor tilts, I fall back-

I never saw this.

Gripping the suitcase detonator, he reaches for the door.

Which opens before he can touch it.

Libarid. You idiot.

But I’m the one who lost track. I’m the one with the bad wiring. Now I know.

And in that final instant I show him with my face that this was not how it was supposed to be.

Emin’s hand seizes up, thumb on the button.