World War Z_ An Oral History of the Zombie War ( PDFDrive )

And Honolulu never had any record of a Skywatcher with the call sign
Mets Fan.
You’ve done your homework.
I…
You probably also read my after-action report, right?
Yes.
And the psych evaluation they tacked on after my official debriefing.
Well…
Well, it’s bullshit, okay? So what if everything she told me was information I’d already been
briefed on, so what if the psych team “claim” my radio was knocked out before I hit the mud, and
so the fuck what if Mets is short for Metis, the mother of Athena, the Greek goddess with the
stormy gray eyes. Oh, the shrinks had a ball with that one, especially when they “discovered” that
my mother grew up in the Bronx.
And that remark she made about your mother?
Who the hell doesn’t have mother issues? If Mets was a pilot, she was a natural gambler. She knew
she had a good chance of scoring a hit with “mom.” She knew the risk, took her shot…Look, if they
thought I’d cracked up, why didn’t I lose my flight status? Why did they let me have this job?
Maybe she wasn’t a pilot herself, maybe she was married to one, maybe she’d wanted to be one
but never made it as far as I did. Maybe she was just a scared, lonely voice that did what she could
to help another scared lonely voice from ending up like her. Who cares who she was, or is? She
was there when I needed her, and for the rest of my life, she’ll always be with me.