Express

Traveling is fun! I'll get yesterday and the day before posted now. Expect today's sometime later on. We just got the laptop hooked up to the hotel's wireless.

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Candace moved to the edge of the curb and raised her hand. She was taken aback when a group of large men in football helmets charged noisily to her side of the street. They carried a palanquin between them.

“Who are you?” said Candace.

The leader glanced at her. His face was invisible inside his helmet. “We are a taxi,” he said.

Candace hesitated, then shrugged and mounted the palanquin's steps. A whistle blew. Two players darted into the cross-traffic, slamming cars aside with a crunch and a roar. The taxi, bearing Candace aloft, followed in their wake.