N felt the cold blistering water touch his feet. Foam curdles through the porous gravel and sizzles against the soles of his feet.
He opens his eyes and looks to the cumulus clouds of smoke.
I fell asleep again.
N thought to himself. He rubbed his eyes and looked across the beach.
His mind felt clear again.
The ocean stretched off until it reached the edges of the sky. There, heat and light ripples through the smoke screen.
The tide rises this time, and wets his coattails. He gingerly tucks the coat behind him and lets the water keep lapping at his body.
He gets up and begins walking across the icy gravel. The floor crunches with each step.
N adjusts his uniform, which had become standard issue across all branches of the USC9, official or in his case, unofficial.
He tightens the straps of his chest rig and breastplate and shifts his shoulder pads, patting the KillRoy patch to ensure it stays on.
He goes to the snow mobile and opens the door with one of his multitools. Inside is V2, she lays on the bed of the vehicle, sleeping with a CD ROM player plugged into her neck. He quietly nudges her awake. She rubs her eyes and her breathing normalizes, her red gaze lays upon N with a form of peace he was still trying to accustom himself to.
"Hm...?" She says through a smile.
"It's time for us to go back."
"Is it?" She sits up from her resting place and peers through the front window.
V2 turned the vehicle back and began the drive back to base. N didn't close the back window slats, he instead looks out the window
There was a green and black smoke and throbbing red haze. The red was suddenly pushed away by a small tinge of yellows and blue. It flashes for a few moments, and the black sky begins to lighten to its daytime gray. N shuts the window and moves up behind V2.
"Do you like the sunrise?" V2 asked.
N didn't need to answer the question, the two of them already knew the answer.
THE FIGHT RAGES ON
YET THEY CONTINUE TO MOVE
the end
BUT IT NEVER IS OVER, ISN'T IT?
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