Project Genesis

Chapter 15

She is a child
that was
forced to grow up.

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"Thanks for coming with us Nyx. I understand you had many other important works to attend to." One of the guys from the search party she had come with thanked her.

"Don't worry about it Mike." She replied, looking at the brown eyed and chestnut haired guy and shook her head dismissively.

The group consisted of Nyx and two other guys who were leading the way as she followed behind closely with her hands in her pockets.

"I think we should move faster. Your friends might need us more than we think." She simply stated and others agreed with her as they all fastened their paces.

As the three of them walked in utter silence, Nyx's mind kept drifting back to the fight she had before leaving the base.

"This is you. This is the real you."

"Ohh you have no idea who the real me is."

"Ohh I think I do. You are a person who would kill innocent children and won't even lose a night's sleep over it."

She was in a trance – walking without looking, wherever her legs took her – as if the events from before was playing in front of her again and again.

"Ohh I think I do. You are a person who would kill innocent children and won't even lose a night's sleep over it."

The same face. The same eyes. The same voice. The same anger and disgust on his face, in his voice.

As if on cue, her right hand made its way to the cross hanging around her neck – the cross that she carried with herself every day, every second for more than the past three years.

She wrapped her hand around it and taking a deep breath, snatched herself out of the trance.

It was when she came back to her senses that she realised they were now about to reach their destination which was a small village towards the north-east.

She also realised she had been thinking about the fight, the words that were spoken and the allegations that were made, way longer than she realised. But apart from that, especially she was thinking about the man who said those words and made those allegations.

While making there way across the field they were in now, Nyx heard rustling of the tall, dry grass that surrounded them.

She stopped the other two and motioned with her hand that she heard something. They all ducked to keep themselves out of the sight of the uninvited guests they had. The grass around them swallowed them whole.

The second guy with them moved away as stealthily as the hay for the grass allowed him to and to other side. He peeked out of the grass and immediately stood up when he saw who the other party was.

Due to the sudden movement in their peripheral view, the other party turned and aimed their guns at him.

"Don't shoot. It's me." He hollered as he raised his hands up in surrender.

The other party dropped their gun and ran towards him and hugged him tightly, "Thank god it's you. Guys it's Louis." He choked as he tried getting words out of his mouth.

"Don't shoot guys. It's Chris, John and Sam." Louis spoke as he pulled away from the man hugging him.

Nyx and the other guy came out of the grass too. The face of the man lit up when he saw Mike making his way towards him. And then his eyes fell on her. Though her face was covered with a black mask, her eyes were more than enough for the guy named Chris to recognise who she was.