BEYOND THE VEILS,THE CRIMSON TRANQUILITY

Chapter 2: The curse, passed along

Beyond the veils, a crimson tranquility

Chapter 2: The curse, passed along.

The ship had finally reached Brazil after 23 days at the sea and a crazy adventure, the ship had finally docked at Rio De Janeiro. The ship was to undergo some routine maintenance and the crew are to wait at the Docks' living space temporarily or can visit their homes if they live nearby. Luca however wanted to report to the Joint coalition's continental headquarters and meet the Chief-in-Command of the headquarters after hearing something about the "organization" from Gabriel. He wanted to take Gabriel, Johnathan and tommy with him, The kid would get to meet someone his age too, if he were to come with them. Cassius had to run an errand for a while and he wouldn't be able to visit the headquarters. After packing their luggage, All four of them left for the Continental headquarters with a vehicle provided by the coalition branch at the docks. The docks was built in an area spanning over 20 hectares, used bot for transporting commercial products and it was used by the coalition as well.

The Continent headquarters was situated in the heart of Brazil, in the city of Brasilia. It was a huge megastructure almost as huge as the entire city itself and was like the Human nervous system, brain being the actual headquarters and the thousands of nerves connecting to everywhere in the body being the roadways connecting the fortress to the entire continent. It's defenses were one of the most scary and accurate ones. The focus of the protection not only being the higher ranking authorities but everyone who lived and worked there. The filtering was thorough and suspicious ones were stopped for even higher levels of more painful and arduous checking. The squad had finally got through ,were happy to see some life and some bustling activity after nearly a month of being at the sea, and being bored of the monotony it had to offer. The entire city and even the entire continent was one of the most secure, since it was quite efficient at locking off evil activity and they were able to effectively countermeasure the infected from spreading and terrorizing people's lives. the entire continent's populace lived like there was no pandemic and a global emergency ever, thanks to the steps taken by the Chief-in-Command and a proper implementation of those.

Tommy was very happy since he got to see that many people and he was also happy that he was among the company of many more kids at the staffing part of the Headquarters, where the squad was temporarily at. After taking a bath and eating a bit, Luca and Gabriel left to meet the Commander-in-chief, while tommy was left in John's care. Tommy asked john to take him to play parks and got him to buy ice cream too, so he did. After roaming for a while, both of them settled down at a park after completely exploring many others. While both of them are eating their second ice cream of the day, they sat on a bench and tommy all of a sudden, asked John, "Say, uncle john, why do you look a bit different than others? Why is your skin so pale and your eyes a distinguishing blue?", "woah, where did that come from all of a sudden?" John replied to tommy's question. "To answer your first question, do u remember when we first met? There was a woman shouting at me in the middle of the night? The reason she did yes I'm a bit different from the rest of us, but I'm still a human, nonetheless. It is because of this "difference" i have, my eyes glow blue and my skin is paler than the others."

To this, Tommy said: "How are you different than others? say how are you different than me? I'm a normal human, how are you so different that the woman went so far and shouted at you?" Johnathan looking at the child, curiously ,as to how he is so mature for his young, immature age of 7-8. Whether it was simple curiosity or genuine interest to know more about Johnathan, he was ready to answer the curious child's questions. John was genuinely so happy that the child grew so much from the moment he stepped onto the ship along with Gabriel, and from the little timid child he was. It was just a few weeks but seeing him finally act like normal children made John happy.