Final Horizon

“The shooter closed her eyes, but briefly, as if summoning the inner calm needed, both to bond with her rifle and its deadly payload, and also to synchronise her whole body with the action that was being asked of it. She took a deep inhalation that seemed to last an age. Although, initially, her pretty eyes stared wide, they soon narrowed, darkening, now with deadly intent, as the exhalation came. Finally, she squeezed the precision trigger with one smooth unfaltering movement.”