
“I hate this part.”309Please respect copyright.PENANAozmT62hU8N
“Aw come on Deena;” said the one assigned to go first, “it is as I always say.309Please respect copyright.PENANAtFk644wqp9
Sometimes there is nothing you can do. You just have to accept it as it is.”309Please respect copyright.PENANABsnSpueBt9
“Rhim!”309Please respect copyright.PENANAiRqn9LMrnz
“Hope all of you brought your raincoats...” he added before taking that first jump.309Please respect copyright.PENANAfzoePbvqS4
“Captain, I will be waiting at the extraction point by sunrise...” a small pause and a309Please respect copyright.PENANAjq0JVAfsAA
bit of silence from that box, not even the slightest static. “See yous’ all there.”309Please respect copyright.PENANAWIkh8D42aa
“See you there...” the captain jumped off last, he dived straight into that storm much309Please respect copyright.PENANA8ttUdNeJLf
like the four before him and one by one Sheiska saw them disappear into those thick309Please respect copyright.PENANAlrdO4voLJi
clouds, all of them impressively connected by rumbling thunder...309Please respect copyright.PENANALJ7f3gUgvJ
Sepia like clouds as massive as anyone can ever hope to find that always carry309Please respect copyright.PENANAamGsBQLEYW
with them this constant anger, this hatred towards something that they always admit309Please respect copyright.PENANA5LNVF6RUSr
with unceasing displays of energy. Constant and even more impressive discharges of309Please respect copyright.PENANAhFABLYIPXz
lightning and rain that knows no drought! Standing against all this, are now five309Please respect copyright.PENANAsj1VJdYu21
minuscule and darkened figures freefalling with only the closest lightning flash now309Please respect copyright.PENANAct4Q3CgULk
and then being capable of revealing more of them. Despite it all, they seem calm, even309Please respect copyright.PENANAeLwhE6dkSg
gracious at times, as they keep on descending, their bodies swinging and dodging any309Please respect copyright.PENANAsD3A9r1H16
danger heading their way. Their masks protect them from any outside sound and the309Please respect copyright.PENANAbLP41UCM8R
technology within them, albeit struggling, is enough to get the word around.309Please respect copyright.PENANA7KNxYg24gO
“Alright... wait for my mark...” the captain speaks to all of them “Any minute now...”309Please respect copyright.PENANAHY1TsPS4B5
All five of them are now dropping like they did so many times before and their309Please respect copyright.PENANALlNdn0mHzs
leader looks back to get a quick glimpse at the Bolt Lander one last time. He stared309Please respect copyright.PENANA0xOGIRevWp
at it for a moment, only the fibered veil of his mask standing between his eye and that309Please respect copyright.PENANAHgwS8NfLF7
ticket home. It too would quickly disappear into the clouds above and he then turned309Please respect copyright.PENANAIS2JPw6eXQ
his attention to the others below him, to their bodies swinging either to the left or to309Please respect copyright.PENANAhMmL0ACLvN
the right as they dodged the white flashes of lightning, and all this while freefalling309Please respect copyright.PENANAbFslV6wyyM
between all the rain and the storm that births it. Something that would repeat itself309Please respect copyright.PENANAuqvrj6J7s7
for quite a while, and these manoeuvres that are not without grace are also owners of309Please respect copyright.PENANAeY2T6Z8pmE
a silence of their very own. Then the first sightings of land were bestowed upon all the309Please respect copyright.PENANAUoy4q6pgmx
eyes behind those masks. All that thunder and fury might have begun to let them go309Please respect copyright.PENANADvQnCmXLIh
but the rain will still escort them for a long time.309Please respect copyright.PENANAvx5zhd8TGw
“Ready to deploy on my mark...” the captain’s voice cuddles their ears once more,309Please respect copyright.PENANApP3ZmPcbBm
“In three... two... one... Mark!”309Please respect copyright.PENANALVdXMkhBhJ
Their diving formation then assumed a more aggressive stance for a moment, one309Please respect copyright.PENANAotBMrhRtEw
that always precedes the relief that is about to come and is meant to gain more distance309Please respect copyright.PENANAXVlDYfBSAU
between all of them. One at a time their suits began to reveal linear glows throughout.309Please respect copyright.PENANAKTfdttXKZe
Some kind of purple and red patterns of an almost neon nature covered the majority309Please respect copyright.PENANABRwlvpMWEI
of their armoured bodies and then, after producing some sort of electrical field around309Please respect copyright.PENANAWExcrk5rwg
each one of them that is actually the reason for their spreading, some slick and309Please respect copyright.PENANAiPgnoMJ8dA
silk-like red elongated cloths sprouted from each one of their backs and arms.309Please respect copyright.PENANArtwloJjjuj
Six stripes, three on each side and all coloured in dark reds jump from where their309Please respect copyright.PENANASv1oS3fchj
shoulder blades should be behind all that armour and their elbows only to attach309Please respect copyright.PENANASOsGmdkCwW
themselves quickly to their calves. Each one of the falling bodies immediately slows309Please respect copyright.PENANAzWDLWeXU2b
once these sorts of one colour rainbows are fully deployed. Their descent became309Please respect copyright.PENANAV9OpifcbsL
gentler and even, if only for a short while, allowed some personal time to breathe309Please respect copyright.PENANAOL8Nm8UqvP
before getting right back into it. Such peace lasted about a minute, possibly slightly309Please respect copyright.PENANA4gG0Ik4xj8
more and then impact was finally made...309Please respect copyright.PENANAMC94az4PZP
One at a time their feet arrived and finally contacted Brosse’s soil more gently than309Please respect copyright.PENANABXQd66JVyq
one would ever expect. Landfall was made quietly as it usually is, but the weather of309Please respect copyright.PENANAoqQMXflLcq
this region has brought them no closer than what they were expecting. They found309Please respect copyright.PENANAie6ki0kS0I
themselves separated but not by much; one landed here and the next just over there.309Please respect copyright.PENANAmF2IUA7gs4
It was dark and muddy all around them and the storm above the entire region has309Please respect copyright.PENANAnfqWOk7pkm
them soaked already, but none of this is of any concern to them. Each of them had to309Please respect copyright.PENANAXglRV1eWro
walk a very hard long road to get to the position they now occupy, and it didn’t get any309Please respect copyright.PENANAHmCSsPUYW9
easier after doing so. That was when their real training began and continues to this309Please respect copyright.PENANAj7D8BltFCm
very day. Neither storm nor mist, not even the unruly howls in the darker corners of309Please respect copyright.PENANARqyfDGvuXe
this haunted town will make a dent in their determination.
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“And as our hearts sing and dance at the immoral rhythm of life,309Please respect copyright.PENANAIrZ7CtDTsT
we play its tune with each of our wrongful deeds.”309Please respect copyright.PENANAEW8dzii2YA
- The Green Walker -
-end of chapter 2
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