.. burning my hand. Another cup. Boiling hot, (The other option was the tea... freezing stone cold.) I tried to move swiftly but carefully through the heavily crowded room. Around me everybody seemed to be talking extra loadly, shouting, swearing, blashpheming coming from every corner of the room, and the occassional banter and horrendous laughter. I didn't see how anyone could laugh. I didn't care for any of this. I managed to find one free space and then was immensely put off by screaming, screaming, SCREAMING coming from open doors in a building opposite, "That's offputting - that screaming." I said.
"Fucks got shellshock." said a man to me severely and then moved on...walking through the crowd with a better in his hand... I only thought of this for a second, must be his own, there was no beer in the room... only tea and coffee... bioling hot... or freezing cold... I srugged it off, took a sip of my coffee and it burned my lip. I put it down, took a deep sigh, thinking about my son, not even knowing what time it was at home or here... I looked around in my bewilderment.
I saw a young man by the open doors leading out into a cold, chilly gray day which was meant to be and early spring morning, but instead of rays of sunlight and blue skies, it was starting to rain heavily outside: where i'd come from the birds would be singing, but here the sound of any birds was drowned out by the occassional gunfire, abusive shouting, banter of malicious laughter and screaming... I was certain he was waving at me. He took a pair of tracksuit clothes and offered to take two tablets from a little pot for me from a large strict looking man behind a stand and nodded in my direction and i think the man mouthed something like, "permission given." and motioned for him to be off. The young man, looking no more than a teenager, walked towards me as if effortlessly through the crowd with a welcome greeting smile on his face. I didn't take my eyes off him... there was something wonderous about him. Could it have been that he looked no more than an innocent child himself? he had a way of walking that moved with the wind,a light dance to each step and a slight limp that didn seem to bother him at all. I got the impression he didn't feel any pain and had had no injury to cause this limp... "Good day!" he said briskly, handing me the clothes and the tablets and said, "Youe going to be neeeding these - absolutely. You're my new roommate, aren't you? How charming! You came on a bad day... its one of the many training days today, which is a great bother and quite the ordeal, but but this medicine should get you through. What is your name? I'm Jimmy."
"Jimmy." I confirmed, taking the items and putting them down on my lap as I liften my hand into a hand shake, "Ezikuel is myself. Glad to meet your aquaintence. I don't suppose I could skip training day? I have more important things to do. I need to go home."
"There is no other option... honestly, you might get a torrent full of abuse and mistreatement with horrific languaege if you try to disagree with the trainer so i'd Definately say training is your best bet. It's to save your life anyway. It's in preperation to go into the fights...... its nessessary."
"What are the tablets?"
"Amphetamine and suliments for energy and muscle building and strenth."
I nodded. I took them. I had other plans, but just incase my plans failed, which I had no intention of letting anyone give them permission to, i would need this for the training and for the argumentation of returning home by law... "I'm used to going on a walk in the mornings but never before have I been on an obsticle course. Do they really expect anyone to do that?"
"You know what..." Jimmy said thoughtful, and said to my amusement, "i don't think they do... they have people vomiting and collapsing all the time, i think they're just taking the piss... asking the impossible because if the other option is dying, well...in battle... best learn how to do the impossible before you face it. "
"I refuse to die. i refuse to battle. I refuse to fight. I refuse to train. ...I shouldn't be here. I have a wife, a young son and a daughter on the way. Tell me Jimmy, where is the Generals office?"
"Ohh you don't have time for that!!" and with that a high pitched sounding whistle like alarm came from somewhere outside and everybody was on the move, "Speak to them after the training if you can still stand up."
"You can see Angels." I told him. "This is a great gift from GOD... I have seen an Angel - Azriel once, and a demon once... I cannot see them now."
"You can see Angels." jimmy said, "I'm an Angel."
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