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Friday Flash: The Intelligence of Pegasus

Well, here it is again--another week, another rush to finish my story in time to revise it for you! Chuck Wendig gave us two lists of words or phrases this week, to be randomly selected and turned into a title. Being a bit lazy, instead of opening my random number generator, I asked my son for two numbers between one and 20. His choices gave me "Pegasus" and "Intelligence." As is often the case when starting from the title, it gives the idea and then the story moves on so the fit is no longer perfect. But a tale's a tale for all that. I hearby give you, in 1001 words... The Intelligence of Pegasus  “We’re operating blind, that’s the hell of it!” The captain glanced at the hills that prevented his scouts from watching the enemy. “So you’ll let me go up?” The young lieutenant was practically panting with eagerness to show what he could do with his new-fangled machine. Captain Carmichael-Jones caressed horse that looked over his shoulder, and scowled at the mess of