Glancing at my license, the new guy asked, “Mind if I ask why you were flying over this particular area?"
"We were on our way home from Dallas. This place is on a straight line from Dallas to my house in Florida."
"Uh, huh.” He looked at my license again, then eyed the flitter and asked, “How high up were you?"
"Forty thousand feet."
He tried to appear impassive and failed. “Uh, huh. How fast were you going?"
"I'd rather not say."
The guy's gaze narrowed. “I'd rather you did."
"Okay. Very fast. Jet plane fast."
"Could you be more specific?"
"You'll have to ask my boss. Sorry."
"Your boss? Is that her?” He thumbed at Sue.
"No. My boss is at 3rd World headquarters."
The other cop said, “Keesler Air Force Base is real close by. Is there any chance you weren't really quite that high up, and that maybe one of those guys saw you in that thing? Maybe that's what caused the crash?"
I looked right at him and let him see my irritation as I asked, “You wanna see what that flitter looks like when it's flying? Take a good look, dude. Flitter, go to flight mode."
The flitter instantly vanished as its stealth mode routed all light around it. Both men wore mouth-open, wide-eyed stares and the uniformed cop muttered, “Holy shit..! It's gone!"
"No it isn't. Flitter, return to previous mode, please."
It reappeared just as instantly with the gleaming opaque field. Both men instinctively flinched back a step from the flitter's looming silvery ‘hull'.
"Oh, holy shit ... ” muttered the uniformed cop again.
Sue stepped away from the ambulances as they began backing away from the wreck site, turned around, turned on their sirens, and headed back the way they'd come.
A couple of cop cars acted as escorts to get them through the herd of cars that was forming behind the parked cop cars.
The firemen had sprayed foam on the wreck, likely on general principles. Another firetruck rolled up behind the first one and more firemen got off. Sue said something to the fireman who stood near her.
He answered. She vanished. The guy looked absolutely dumbstruck, even at that distance. Sue materialized beside me and the guy holding my license dropped it without appearing to realize he'd done so.
I sent a field tendril to conceal and pick up my license as Sue smiled and said, “Hello,” to the two men.
"All finished?” I asked her.
She nodded. “All finished. They can take it from here."
"Want to stick around and talk to them about fire suppression fields?"
"No need. I gave them 3rd World's contact info. One man said he'd briefly seen some printed materials, but that he'd been told that the videotape that came with them had been lost. I imprinted one of their blank videocassettes with footage of this fire's suppression by the flitter's field. He rather adamantly declared that this footage wouldn't get lost."
"Sounds as if you impressed him, milady.” Turning to the cops, I said, “We'll say goodnight, then. Three suit on."
Sue vanished when I did. Both cops looked somewhat stunned for a second, then they began looking around for us. We quietly walked to the flitter and Sue graciously allowed me to hand her up and aboard.
Tiger stood on the console dash as we boarded. He hopped down to a seat as Sue and I sat down, then stepped into my lap and looked up at me.
"Very bright lights. Too many. We go home now?"
"Yes,” I said, rubbing his ears, “We go home now. Flitter, lift us to five hundred feet and hold us there for ten seconds, then take us to my house, please."
The flitter responded by aiming itself at Florida as it raised us nearly instantly to five hundred feet.
"Why a ten second delay?” asked Sue.
"To give ‘em a good look at their future."
When the ten seconds ended, the flitter's hull disappeared as it went to stealth mode, then it launched us into the night sky toward Florida.
—End 3rd World Products, Inc. Book 5—
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