“I hate this part.”100Please respect copyright.PENANAJvTFXuug8c
“Aw come on Deena;” said the one assigned to go first, “it is as I always say.100Please respect copyright.PENANAZZ3cZXAojK
Sometimes there is nothing you can do. You just have to accept it as it is.”100Please respect copyright.PENANADtjmt3zmAY
“Rhim!”100Please respect copyright.PENANAICGDDZdfMq
“Hope all of you brought your raincoats...” he added before taking that first jump.100Please respect copyright.PENANAYg7eowgXAN
“Captain, I will be waiting at the extraction point by sunrise...” a small pause and a100Please respect copyright.PENANAl4QJwBbjwQ
bit of silence from that box, not even the slightest static. “See yous’ all there.”100Please respect copyright.PENANAqeExjKZSoi
“See you there...” the captain jumped off last, he dived straight into that storm much100Please respect copyright.PENANAw4pphwj3fj
like the four before him and one by one Sheiska saw them disappear into those thick100Please respect copyright.PENANAshcrSQNeVg
clouds, all of them impressively connected by rumbling thunder...100Please respect copyright.PENANALZh4ITxSds
Sepia like clouds as massive as anyone can ever hope to find that always carry100Please respect copyright.PENANAarkXXI1YWG
with them this constant anger, this hatred towards something that they always admit100Please respect copyright.PENANAtA8l4Bc2XB
with unceasing displays of energy. Constant and even more impressive discharges of100Please respect copyright.PENANADPadrn0IE5
lightning and rain that knows no drought! Standing against all this, are now five100Please respect copyright.PENANAEsqGrLK9r8
minuscule and darkened figures freefalling with only the closest lightning flash now100Please respect copyright.PENANALt6HlEIJfQ
and then being capable of revealing more of them. Despite it all, they seem calm, even100Please respect copyright.PENANAqfvFQ6zPED
gracious at times, as they keep on descending, their bodies swinging and dodging any100Please respect copyright.PENANACZDPZHuPpr
danger heading their way. Their masks protect them from any outside sound and the100Please respect copyright.PENANADNFMZ6j5Gk
technology within them, albeit struggling, is enough to get the word around.100Please respect copyright.PENANAHiEUhtrwH2
“Alright... wait for my mark...” the captain speaks to all of them “Any minute now...”100Please respect copyright.PENANAORVqskiVn4
All five of them are now dropping like they did so many times before and their100Please respect copyright.PENANAPc0BtQ3ruW
leader looks back to get a quick glimpse at the Bolt Lander one last time. He stared100Please respect copyright.PENANAIi2CvRNu72
at it for a moment, only the fibered veil of his mask standing between his eye and that100Please respect copyright.PENANAgqJvuakzNK
ticket home. It too would quickly disappear into the clouds above and he then turned100Please respect copyright.PENANArCPihL008A
his attention to the others below him, to their bodies swinging either to the left or to100Please respect copyright.PENANAFOx6t0bl7A
the right as they dodged the white flashes of lightning, and all this while freefalling100Please respect copyright.PENANADcwOoXM017
between all the rain and the storm that births it. Something that would repeat itself100Please respect copyright.PENANACI5uMO8P2o
for quite a while, and these manoeuvres that are not without grace are also owners of100Please respect copyright.PENANAVELFPsDXnB
a silence of their very own. Then the first sightings of land were bestowed upon all the100Please respect copyright.PENANAvAfMmN2Kit
eyes behind those masks. All that thunder and fury might have begun to let them go100Please respect copyright.PENANAz4KJPkpVtt
but the rain will still escort them for a long time.100Please respect copyright.PENANAKgrhgZbloj
“Ready to deploy on my mark...” the captain’s voice cuddles their ears once more,100Please respect copyright.PENANASk1NpcG2cF
“In three... two... one... Mark!”100Please respect copyright.PENANAXKVkvKfLEX
Their diving formation then assumed a more aggressive stance for a moment, one100Please respect copyright.PENANADuUIZdWFjL
that always precedes the relief that is about to come and is meant to gain more distance100Please respect copyright.PENANAp5OXiTI0TZ
between all of them. One at a time their suits began to reveal linear glows throughout.100Please respect copyright.PENANAzrF1xsCDXj
Some kind of purple and red patterns of an almost neon nature covered the majority100Please respect copyright.PENANAHWGpBAlqOQ
of their armoured bodies and then, after producing some sort of electrical field around100Please respect copyright.PENANADFCpRkEaRC
each one of them that is actually the reason for their spreading, some slick and100Please respect copyright.PENANACHbYiI1IsZ
silk-like red elongated cloths sprouted from each one of their backs and arms.100Please respect copyright.PENANA6yYBeiF9Tv
Six stripes, three on each side and all coloured in dark reds jump from where their100Please respect copyright.PENANAMvnd9CQj9R
shoulder blades should be behind all that armour and their elbows only to attach100Please respect copyright.PENANA21vWhcqxug
themselves quickly to their calves. Each one of the falling bodies immediately slows100Please respect copyright.PENANAWpIuXoj6HO
once these sorts of one colour rainbows are fully deployed. Their descent became100Please respect copyright.PENANA5ClJ6BlrhI
gentler and even, if only for a short while, allowed some personal time to breathe100Please respect copyright.PENANAO8363seLKG
before getting right back into it. Such peace lasted about a minute, possibly slightly100Please respect copyright.PENANANLpaJ1mJD9
more and then impact was finally made...100Please respect copyright.PENANAFmY6nZ2Fc6
One at a time their feet arrived and finally contacted Brosse’s soil more gently than100Please respect copyright.PENANAIhtbycrQO9
one would ever expect. Landfall was made quietly as it usually is, but the weather of100Please respect copyright.PENANAS8Uah9stHe
this region has brought them no closer than what they were expecting. They found100Please respect copyright.PENANApVNQMU7dvM
themselves separated but not by much; one landed here and the next just over there.100Please respect copyright.PENANAiB96sqydIg
It was dark and muddy all around them and the storm above the entire region has100Please respect copyright.PENANApgF5Un3yrI
them soaked already, but none of this is of any concern to them. Each of them had to100Please respect copyright.PENANALdltDOywQh
walk a very hard long road to get to the position they now occupy, and it didn’t get any100Please respect copyright.PENANAzwxcRQhM8D
easier after doing so. That was when their real training began and continues to this100Please respect copyright.PENANAnEWQ3FGGVI
very day. Neither storm nor mist, not even the unruly howls in the darker corners of100Please respect copyright.PENANA2aNa6jEnn0
this haunted town will make a dent in their determination.
100Please respect copyright.PENANAs5Sj3g6x7b
“And as our hearts sing and dance at the immoral rhythm of life,100Please respect copyright.PENANARoF95Iict9
we play its tune with each of our wrongful deeds.”100Please respect copyright.PENANAKdee1Hnqrk
- The Green Walker -
-end of chapter 2
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