~°°~Someday, I'll wish upon a star~°°~
Abuja, Nigeria.
4:11 pm.
The splendour light which was dyed on the sky shimmered through the soft clouds giving the noon a beautiful glow.
The surface was warm with the rays of light produced by the sun. Wind drifted through the lush green grasses as the smell of pure nature filled the air.
The few people in erudite team who were assigned with the duty of patrolling were on patrol somewhere inside the forest. Each with a detecting device trying to locate any hidden explosive.
Minutes of roaming without any suspicious detection, the detecting device with lieutenant Ray echoed with a beep indicating a found explosive.
Upon hearing that the whole team moved closer to the beeping, they followed exactly where the beeping was faster and found a hidden explosive beneath dried leaves.
"Lieutenant Zanna, quick, get the bomb suits ready while Lieutenant Jalal, contact the camp immediately and inform our major" Ray requested as everyone stepped away from the explosive so as to get into their bomb suits.
"Please ehn, make sure you handle that thing with care, pesin never marry before make I no die single" Zanna joked joke as usual.
That earned him a glare from Ray.
"You'll die alone Lieutenant, because the last time I checked, we weren't born together" he stated, rolled his eyes and walked away without waiting for his reply.
Zanna already had a smirk on his face. He enjoyed being unserious.
After they were ready in their bomb suits, the soldiers got busy inspecting the explosive before their captain and major arrived.
That is because before anything could be done to the bomb, it needs studying so as not to touch the wrong places which will cause the explosive to go off - just like Zanna implied.
Any wrong disconnection can set the whole place and the people there ablaze.
Sayf was inside his tent reading a book when Aliyu ran to him holding the talky.
Sayf liked reading because it took him away from his world for minutes without him even realising.
Lieutenant Aliyu informed him about the found explosive and they set out - him and Imran - to the location where the bomb was found. They didn't waste any time before they arrived at the location.
"What do we have here Ray?" Sayf asked almost immediately after they reached the spot, Ray was already sweaty from baseless struggles.
"It is a ten pound syntex, possibly with a shrapnel. But the problem is that I can't find the switch and the x-ray diffraction submitted by Lieutenant Aliyu also didn't show anything, I have no Idea why that is happening" Ray explained wiping his face with the back of his palms.
"Just rest, I'll take a look" he said. And while Imran stayed behind to wear a bomb suit, he simply proceeded towards the explosive with none.
Knowing clearly that he wouldn't wear the bomb suit, none of them approached him with it which made the trainee extremely surprised.
"Not once in my whole life have I ever seen a soldier who approaches bombs without any protection" Recruit Hameed said to Lieutenant Ray which made him chuckle.
"Applies to me too, he was the first. He seemed so unfazed whenever he does it, not scared a second. And until now, no one knows the reason for that amongst us" he said inhaling and exhaling deeply.
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