
“I hate this part.”308Please respect copyright.PENANAT8rFKcv1Mi
“Aw come on Deena;” said the one assigned to go first, “it is as I always say.308Please respect copyright.PENANANBnQNZF3ss
Sometimes there is nothing you can do. You just have to accept it as it is.”308Please respect copyright.PENANAsLpETCo6fa
“Rhim!”308Please respect copyright.PENANAjvxTuAMpqP
“Hope all of you brought your raincoats...” he added before taking that first jump.308Please respect copyright.PENANAyWcIRrWkpv
“Captain, I will be waiting at the extraction point by sunrise...” a small pause and a308Please respect copyright.PENANAmPXI6GvP1B
bit of silence from that box, not even the slightest static. “See yous’ all there.”308Please respect copyright.PENANAHGvob1Dhe9
“See you there...” the captain jumped off last, he dived straight into that storm much308Please respect copyright.PENANAnaqB8ddMgD
like the four before him and one by one Sheiska saw them disappear into those thick308Please respect copyright.PENANAesWGOLMrAU
clouds, all of them impressively connected by rumbling thunder...308Please respect copyright.PENANAhgD8Tva9nv
Sepia like clouds as massive as anyone can ever hope to find that always carry308Please respect copyright.PENANAERNHLn5JKH
with them this constant anger, this hatred towards something that they always admit308Please respect copyright.PENANAISUGEGxgAn
with unceasing displays of energy. Constant and even more impressive discharges of308Please respect copyright.PENANA3iKw1gOruz
lightning and rain that knows no drought! Standing against all this, are now five308Please respect copyright.PENANAWVrHOeMN6c
minuscule and darkened figures freefalling with only the closest lightning flash now308Please respect copyright.PENANAJC88bcrJlw
and then being capable of revealing more of them. Despite it all, they seem calm, even308Please respect copyright.PENANAAGxJgJH7lJ
gracious at times, as they keep on descending, their bodies swinging and dodging any308Please respect copyright.PENANABYXePffNQG
danger heading their way. Their masks protect them from any outside sound and the308Please respect copyright.PENANATOi5VEQiyP
technology within them, albeit struggling, is enough to get the word around.308Please respect copyright.PENANABwWQoCtXze
“Alright... wait for my mark...” the captain speaks to all of them “Any minute now...”308Please respect copyright.PENANAToWI0w4iWa
All five of them are now dropping like they did so many times before and their308Please respect copyright.PENANAXCh0LUKpQz
leader looks back to get a quick glimpse at the Bolt Lander one last time. He stared308Please respect copyright.PENANA2zIoHKXgGC
at it for a moment, only the fibered veil of his mask standing between his eye and that308Please respect copyright.PENANAFA3qsuiLrd
ticket home. It too would quickly disappear into the clouds above and he then turned308Please respect copyright.PENANADTknOogx7n
his attention to the others below him, to their bodies swinging either to the left or to308Please respect copyright.PENANAKfZmDGa75c
the right as they dodged the white flashes of lightning, and all this while freefalling308Please respect copyright.PENANActotO6KvGZ
between all the rain and the storm that births it. Something that would repeat itself308Please respect copyright.PENANAyEiczMmkES
for quite a while, and these manoeuvres that are not without grace are also owners of308Please respect copyright.PENANAwSTXbzhvyf
a silence of their very own. Then the first sightings of land were bestowed upon all the308Please respect copyright.PENANAxUaxJHojEO
eyes behind those masks. All that thunder and fury might have begun to let them go308Please respect copyright.PENANAP7VAFQ8n5z
but the rain will still escort them for a long time.308Please respect copyright.PENANAxNzsngW59A
“Ready to deploy on my mark...” the captain’s voice cuddles their ears once more,308Please respect copyright.PENANAUB4KZ9pHGn
“In three... two... one... Mark!”308Please respect copyright.PENANAwPoKamuBWI
Their diving formation then assumed a more aggressive stance for a moment, one308Please respect copyright.PENANAxO79BZC4nR
that always precedes the relief that is about to come and is meant to gain more distance308Please respect copyright.PENANAPrC0ZPowOE
between all of them. One at a time their suits began to reveal linear glows throughout.308Please respect copyright.PENANAThDbBxII4N
Some kind of purple and red patterns of an almost neon nature covered the majority308Please respect copyright.PENANAKJykiQLl2h
of their armoured bodies and then, after producing some sort of electrical field around308Please respect copyright.PENANACIgq5uhJaX
each one of them that is actually the reason for their spreading, some slick and308Please respect copyright.PENANAZpwgFmKSqv
silk-like red elongated cloths sprouted from each one of their backs and arms.308Please respect copyright.PENANAl8JeYOeQ04
Six stripes, three on each side and all coloured in dark reds jump from where their308Please respect copyright.PENANAPeVS9Xmgl9
shoulder blades should be behind all that armour and their elbows only to attach308Please respect copyright.PENANALgFDJ54acq
themselves quickly to their calves. Each one of the falling bodies immediately slows308Please respect copyright.PENANAngy3cnCoTi
once these sorts of one colour rainbows are fully deployed. Their descent became308Please respect copyright.PENANAOiLQXCN8da
gentler and even, if only for a short while, allowed some personal time to breathe308Please respect copyright.PENANA2SMFopiTQQ
before getting right back into it. Such peace lasted about a minute, possibly slightly308Please respect copyright.PENANAEFbE2PdbUR
more and then impact was finally made...308Please respect copyright.PENANA4Ag9KTqpOW
One at a time their feet arrived and finally contacted Brosse’s soil more gently than308Please respect copyright.PENANATCicN20B4x
one would ever expect. Landfall was made quietly as it usually is, but the weather of308Please respect copyright.PENANAtjJTOoSJl2
this region has brought them no closer than what they were expecting. They found308Please respect copyright.PENANA9xbPowAzVM
themselves separated but not by much; one landed here and the next just over there.308Please respect copyright.PENANAtouvTH7oWf
It was dark and muddy all around them and the storm above the entire region has308Please respect copyright.PENANAEGYuwSAXm9
them soaked already, but none of this is of any concern to them. Each of them had to308Please respect copyright.PENANATAz6a1C4bL
walk a very hard long road to get to the position they now occupy, and it didn’t get any308Please respect copyright.PENANAvgJgVLHRuw
easier after doing so. That was when their real training began and continues to this308Please respect copyright.PENANA1iaYF73nog
very day. Neither storm nor mist, not even the unruly howls in the darker corners of308Please respect copyright.PENANAtaCdmofL0l
this haunted town will make a dent in their determination.
308Please respect copyright.PENANAy2Sxe6jJfw
“And as our hearts sing and dance at the immoral rhythm of life,308Please respect copyright.PENANA2lxMVSAj4m
we play its tune with each of our wrongful deeds.”308Please respect copyright.PENANAk7eeqKNO1b
- The Green Walker -
-end of chapter 2
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