Avalon

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Closer To The Edge

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It was getting closer by each minute, every passing second. And god if Nate didn't feel the anxiety and anticipation hitting hard spot.

He was running out of time like never before and the gang was getting restless. Roland kept checking in on the plan and whether Nate was still in and if he's all ready.

It felt like world was starting to spin faster by each second. And like no other times the patient man was pulled into the frenzy he usually didn't allow. It was distracting and sending his already weak lungs into worse state than he could afford.

Nate knew his time is running out this time. That illness wasn't kind and it kept trying to kill him. From the day he was born.. Or maybe from the day he met his fate at the hands of the force field almost killing them all.

Yeah...

I don't remember the moment I tried to forget

I lost myself, is it better not said?

Now I'm closer to the edge

Samara. It always came back to her and their time together. All the days they were still the kids that only had to worry whether they'll have the last scraps for dinner and blanket to cover their bodies or not. They had escaped and put the facility behind and tried to move on. While they could do anything they chose to slide the dark side. Mostly because the girl kept them up to their toes and always ready for a challenge. Or maybe because they were all left for each other and only ones in the world they could trust.

How he missed that. Especially this time. He missed the backup among his closest friends, family and allies. And for that he'd chosen the toughest path to get himself and go there all by himself. Without a single person as a backup.

One thing was to do it all on a normal day and time. Completely another was to do it for someone else and on the side pulling his own job with even higher stakes. But entirely different was to do it all by himself with a damaged health on the brink of succumbing. Now that was a game. One he's been trained for ever since birth.

Whatever his childhood hid he just knew he was brought to this world for single purpose only.

It was them who took it elsewhere and collectively decided their own destiny.

The neverending longing for change ...

It was a thousand to one and a million to two

Time to go down in flames and I'm taking you

Closer to the edge

Nate's eyes skimmed the front of the building once more. The lady kept ordering people around in her fierce manner while managing to be kind. Nate could even pick up few sentences from her lips as she received a call. His hearing only picked up vague signal beeps so he couldn't know who was on the line so he did his training a moment and lip read. It came as easy as he remembered and used that eyesight to see her face.

There were lines of worry etching onto her youthful face that held remains of delicate yet strong and fairly distinct features. Her piercing blue eyes that could see through every lie in the world straight to the soul. There was the fierce energy of someone loyal and very loving. She seemed easygoing while guarded at the same time.