War of the Chosen: Children of the Prime, Book 5 by T.C. Edge

Author:T.C. Edge [Edge, T.C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-30T16:00:00+00:00

13

I stand atop the wall, my eyes staring upon the murk beyond. Haven, hidden amid the dusty cloud of smog, has been given little respite over the past few days. Three days and counting, I think. I wonder how long they can last...

The last few days have entered into an almost familiar pattern. Aside from the permanence of the camp, and the constant sound of distant bombing, my time has been spent training, preparing, and, now that we're on the enemy's doorstep, entering into war meetings.

The latter have been performed each morning, the leaders among the army providing any nightly updates, orders being passed on by Kovas to those best suited to fulfil them. For me and Elian, that has simply been to continue our training, something I'm at least accustomed to. For others, including Dianna - perhaps, I imagine, as a means of keeping her onside - duties of various importance have been handed down. The result is a slightly more harmonious camp, Kovas's rule no longer being so liberally challenged or questioned.

Thankfully, there hasn't been anything to challenge as yet, making my new shackles slightly more comfortable to wear.

Keeping quiet, and staying in line is, after all, a lot more simple when there's nothing to complain about.

Those days, therefore, forge us into a slightly more united front, our collective attention being turned to the single task set to us by the Prime. It may be, in many ways, a front in itself - certainly, my lingering doubts and mistrusts aren't likely to go away any time soon - but it at least gives the impression of a single entity, combining our efforts to defeat our assigned enemy.

Now, with the morning on our fifth full day in camp getting into full swing, and with my training session with Elian not due until this afternoon, I stand atop the wall, finally feeling strong enough to look upon the city once more. Before, it stood intact, though hardly visible due to the limitations of my eyesight. Now, it's no longer intact, but remains hardly visible due to both the aforementioned eyesight constraints, and the fact that there's a great big cloud of smoke hovering around it.

I do, however, get the odd glimpse through the fog, the wall coming into view occasionally, or the nearer buildings beyond appearing before my set of standard, un-augmented eyes. What I witness is a city that's seen much better days, the buildings showing clear signs of significant destruction, the walls the same. Mostly, I learn from Herald Avon, the bombing has been centred beyond the city walls and gates, targeting the regular, primarily residential buildings that lie beyond. To that end, the campaign has been a success, this unending period of terrorising the city through artillery fire surely liable to have a result eventually.

I don't let my mind fill with doubts that morning as I look at the city. If there were some citizens living in the parts of the city we've thus far targeted, they'd have quickly been evacuated elsewhere as soon as the first energy-shell hit.

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