"Have you no heart?" He stopped.
Sayf turned abruptly to face her, feeling as every word she spoke got to his nerves.
"What in the name of Allah is wrong with you?" he asked with a sigh. "Are perhaps mentally impaired?" he asked again trying to be...
~°°~At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet~°°~
Few miles away from Abuja, Nigeria. 18th January, 4:37 pm.
His steps were light against the floor as he crushed dried leaves on the path he walked. They were calculated as he was being careful so as not to step on a landmine.
It was with no doubt that there were landmines around that place, so it didn't hurt to be careful.
Sayf was on a one man patrol.
As Imran and Zanna had to go back to their headquarters and report, he gave the others a day off and set out alone.
His nightmares those days were persistent, so he was looking for the slightest opportunities to be alone. That day, he chose to suffer with the trees and bushes.
He kept moving farther from their camp and deeper into the forest. Few minutes doing just that, he heard footsteps from just a distance ahead.
He stopped at his track and listened carefully so as to understand where the direction of the sound was. When he got the direction, he got his gun on his hand ready to pull the trigger at the person who was approaching.
He was confused of what to do when he saw the face of the person. She was wandering and didn't even notice him there pointing a gun at her.
But when she did, she shouted.
"Don't shoot, don't!" Tauhida shouted closing her eyes in fear.
After some seconds with no action whatsoever, she opened her eyes and looked again, she understood that minute that he was a soldier because of his uniform.
"Who are you?" He asked in a warning tone while she raised her hands up in surrender. "I came to a picnic camp with my friends and got lost, can you help me find my way?" She explained and asked.
"But please, stop pointing the gun at me, it is making me feel like my encounter with death is close" she requested but that made him to remove the safety still pointing at her.
"Nashiga uku, shikenan Zan mutu baza'a ga gawana ba (I'm done for, that's how I'll die here and no one will see my corpse)" Tauhida said and tried to move away.
"If you move an inch, i'll shoot" Sayf said in a warning tone, his voice so daring she had to stiffen from where she stood.
But if he was true to himself, he wouldn't dare do as he said. He wouldn't dare pull the trigger at someone who had been on his mind, her face etched in his memories and somewhere deep within his nightmares too.
But of course fate, he just had to meet her again that way.
And because of protocols, he couldn't let her leave or direct her to her camp wheresoever it is. For in any army division, she'll be taken as either a spy or terrorist for appearing at a place like that.
So in his mind, he knew he had to take her back to their camp and send her to their headquarters for interrogation and investigation.
He didn't say anything, at least not something life threatening but she squared at her spot and started crying.
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