LINX

Kane's Brotherhood

Chapter 20

Fazil eyes opened by the light of dawn, the first rays of sunlight. Expecting a little privacy he sat up. Due to the rain they all slept all along the inner side of the rocky cave. Their backs stiff from the rocky surface of the cave. He stretched from the night of good sleep he already had.

 Cold wind due to the rain had made the cave chilling cold.

He woke up making assessment of his immediate surroundings .

At first he saw Kylie's head resting over his chest, she was taking warmth in his company. Something he knew was mentioning that she really liked his presence. The cave was dimly lit from the first rays of the sun, though he couldn't make an assessment of the time as the sun was at different angles on different planets.

The rest of the team were lying down at a small distance from them both. Ismail was in a sitting stance his head resting on a smoothened rock along the wall. Kabir and Miriam were resting their heads along their arms. Their bodies turned in and angle facing each other.

Fazil looked around and couldn't find Mark , he was nowhere to be found in the cave.

He noticed  a shadow of a person standing at the mouth of the cave.

He turned towards the mouth and was stunned in horror.

Standing a few feet away from him, blocking his view of the mouth of the cave was a hooded figure. The same figure he had seen  during the inferno around Cole.

The person's name was still unknown to him though he had exclaimed in quite a tone demanding it tell it's name but in vain.

After a few moments of staring at him through it's dark covered eyes, the hooded person started retreating back towards the mouth of the cave, Fazil was on his feet by now, in quick paces following the hooded person.

The person took a turn from the mouth, Fazil followed but the person disappeared and was nowhere to be seen after the turn.

He turned towards the mouth of the cave and to his utter surprise he saw someone sitting on the other side of the mouth, looking into the deep dense rainforest ahead, that was  covering itself in the bountiful water falling from the cloudy skies. 

His bulked up figure clothed in the Nanosuit with it's complicated high tension fibres inexplicably gave only one impression in Fazil's mind - Mark.

He tip toed  there stealthily and sat down beside him, to give him company. He looked to his face and saw that his eyes were red as though he had been crying all night and in his hand was a small photograph. The photo was of a blonde woman, who with her silky smooth hair and sun kissed glowing skin, she was indeed looking very beautiful. And she rested her arms on the shoulder of a young boy, who had dark hair and shared looks from his mother. By the looks of it he could easily identify that they were Mark's family.

But judging that he chose to hide his grief and chose to have no company while crying suggested that something terrible had happened to them.