That Sound

May 27, 2008

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That sound. We all know it by now, and the new recruits learn it fast. It haunts me even while I sleep. Bane drop ship coming in and releasing their terror on us. Even know as I write this I hear them, drop my pen and grab the shot gun at my side. Everyone around me looks at me like I have lost it. They don't know the half of it.

I have lost more than they know, some have lost as much, some maybe even more, but I don't pry, and neither do they. Friends, family, pets, home...all gone. They gathered the ones of us that could fight, looking back, I think I would have stayed away from those martial arts classes now. They aren't overly helpful now with a gun in my hand, but it sure feels good to drive a well placed back side kick in the gut of those creatures right before they die.

So I try to sleep again and think of home, to hold my wife one more time, even if it isn't real, until that sound brings me to the real world again.

Rick Dragonrage