A Dinosaur Is A Man's Best Friend (A Serialized Novel), Part Nine: "The Demon and the Avatar"

They both felt it at the same time, even as the train lurched forward and the cars jolted thunderously—a tremor in the very fabric of things, like a ripple in a foam of potentiality which contained in it the threads of all their possible futures. Something, somewhere, had just happened—something directly related to their current endeavor of delivering the bomb to Barley and detonating it amidst the Enemy.

(An attack, you think, maybe an ambush? So soon?) communicated Ank, still smarting from...