Prologue
So I sat there, waiting on the third or so floor of an apartment building, peering down the scope of an L-96...thinking. I began to reach for the beer I had recently opened but stopped myself halfway and said "I'm a good shot,...I need to keep it that way" Then across the street in the apartment complex parallel to mine I saw movement, the door to apartment number 36 opened. I had been through these next moments over and over for the past half hour, but now it was real, show time, "One...Two...take out the keys" a beautiful female robin stepped in and closed the door behind her, if that backstabbing raccoon was with her I wasn't going to get a shot on him "...So it has to be you..." I continued trailing off then was brought back to reality as the avian left the scope's line of sight and I had to relocate her which wasn't hard. She set a bag of groceries on her kitchen countertop and began unloading them. "It's now or never" I thought and began to breathe deeply. "Goodbye" Mordecai said to himself reaching for the trigger.