The kind of quiet that doesn't last.

Travis Stone is up before the alarm, the way he has been for thirty years. A bus that always starts on the third try. A thermos of coffee. Twenty minutes in the blue, before he becomes anyone's boss.

He has heard things, lately. Nothing he can put a name to. The kind of weather you feel in your knee before you see it on the radar.

But that's Dallas. That's three hours and a different altitude away. Here, the light is coming up over the Davis Mountains and none of it is real yet.

Featured: Travis Stone, division head.

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