The Silver Pheasant

Photo by Ayan Nayak on Unsplash

Savio Potenza heard a shot being fired. It was not an unfamiliar shock to his nerves; he had heard gunfire growing up in Ethiopia, had served in a military unit, had dealt with his share of armed characters. It was not his first time hearing guns go off in Vietnam — but… it jolted him into action, with more frantic urgency than he had expected to feel. His emotions, an insignificant problem in most assignments, ran hot and deep in this case, even…