As I am laying in my makeshift bed I hear a knock to the entrance of the Squad camp in the mall, “Arthor you got everything ready to go?” Jorgenson askes for me to respond with a thumbs up, “Well come on we got to get moving as we do have a mission” I jump out and untie both ends of the makeshift bed and wrap the cloak around myself.

I walk over to Jorgenson and we both start to walk off to where everyone is meeting at, along the way I can people giving us the side eye as we walk I ignore them but I can tell Jorgenson is not taking a liking to all the shifty looks he is getting.

We continue our walk until we finally meet up with Ryan and Kathrine, it is oddly weird how they are always together but I don’t want to peruse into what kind of relationship they have, “Alright Now the other two and we are off to go collect HVT” as soon as Ryan Finishes the other two show up, “We are here sir when are leaving” Alexandrea says smugly for some reason which make me question what has happened while I was doing stuff out in the city.

“Well, we are all here and faster than I thought we would” Ryan grabs his bag and begins to walk towards the area where we will meet rose and her two guards that I fully expect to die along this journey at some point just because of how they follow orders to easily like robots.

Kathrine looks at me like I am missing something, “something wrong Kathrine?” she jumps a little at being questioned out of the blue, “No nothing I was just wondering why you don’t have the rifle you were using a little while ago?” the rifle in question I had only really used once when the big incident happened, which was a month and 3 weeks ago now.

“Nothing really, I just using it as it did not fell right using it” I respond back, she nods and walks in the direction we are heading in I follow suit and then the rest with Ryan at the back of the group in pure quiet, which in make the silence not so quiet for me as the ghosts talk in my ears.

I am lucky I have gone crazy yet from the voices talking sweet words, like one example when I was out for fire support for a squad taking a building in the city, I was providing overwatch for the group and waiting for them to clear and waited for a position to be marked so I could help out, and while waiting a voice began to talk, “Kill Them Now” it startled me and made me worry that my position was compromised or I had missed a shot.

I looked around and found no one in sight so I pulled out my secondary and began to clear the area around me and found no one so I went back to spot and saw a marker I looked down the scope and continued the job I was doing and then I heard it again, “Kill Them Now, do it For the Empire” I fired and hit the target I was aiming for and I quickly whipped around to find a ghost hanging over me looking me in eyes. It felt extremely off I mean I would hope it would feel off about having a body with no head but a skull.

A few other times this had happened but that was the first time it happened and was more unnerving compared to other times it had happened.

Before we even see the Head Zaelyph we hear her talking about something and with her rank it is best I don’t take any notice to what she is talking about “Make sure you keep an eye on that suspected spy” I raise my eyebrows even though no one can see it the body movement I give off can show what I was thinking to the others and they also became more on edge but Kathrine was a little more edge than others. I presume it is related to what the Head Zaelyph said a little earlier when I was not eavesdropping in on what they were talking about.

As we walk around the corner she stands up from where she was seated and walks over eyeing me out of suspicion, “Finally I can leave this place” she say while strapping a mask not like ours or the guards she has with her. It looks more future than what we have right now, sharp angles all round and the front having a singular line going down it.

She starts to walk off but stops when we don’t move, “Well come on let’s get a move on” she impatiently orders, “Sorry head Zaelyph but we need to have your position on our map at all times and that requires us to have a connection to you mask” Ryan explains back and he does have a point even now as the storm passed night blizzards are still a thing to worry about.

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She was not pleased with it as her body displayed it, but she did send it as I got the signal tracker for her location as well, “Got the signal Arthor?” Ryan askes I nod and waves for me to go first so that every follows behind me.

I guess he got a report and me and my skills before I even meet him. only make sense as he is a captain of squad and needs to know the strengths of said squad. Other than that, I begin to walk with the blizzard raging around us and with this new helmet I got it is going to a lot easier than when I was traveling around the world with the others.

I stop after going a fair bit of distance to see if the others are following and that is the one thing about this helmet that I had never realized this had was a map in the corner view it was never there and I had no clue it was not there only now did I realize this fact.

So, I had to turn around to see that they had makers of where they were along with a silhouette of them I must have been given some high-tech stuff if it showed an outline of allies. I turn back around and continue after I make sure that they are following me and keeping somewhat close at all times but to close for us all to be blown to high hell.

And thus the walk began and it was like any walk a person would take quite and a sense of loneliness being followed by that quite you hear and with that combined you tend to lose track of time and that involves me a lot of the times as I get caught up in the moments of silence where I am just left alone with the thoughts inside my head and when you are left alone with only the thoughts in your head it is a short time you think has passed but it is a hour or two that has really passed.

“Let’s set up camp for the rest of the night” I hear over the coms from the head Zaelyph with heavy breaths but if we do in this open terrain we are screwed if not setting ducks, “sorry head Zaelyph but we can’t not in this kind of terrain and geography” Ryan says back bringing a valid counter argument she retorts back saying “I am Tired and not sure how much of this I can continue on doing” and with out hesitation he responds back

“Head Zaelyph, we are not concerned for your tiredness or if you want to continue on doing this we are here to escort you alive”

I stopped dead in my tracks and turn around seeing the outlines of both the head Zaelyph and Ryan face to face, this make me on edge as if a fight breaks out we are good as dead and the bodyguards are not to be found in view of me.

But after some time, she continues to walk which is weird, I don’t worry about it but do take not of this one instance and well al begin to walk again but with more uneasiness than ever with everyone in the group.

Luckily after some time we found a more suitable campsite and I relayed that back to Ryan who gave the order to set up camp and there was still no sight of those bodyguards of the Zaelyph’s, I sigh and walk to Jorgenson and lean back on the wall of the dune we were going to camp near as it provided a bit of cover from side if no climbed the dune.

“The bodyguards are dead” he says making surprised at the news, “How did you find out?” he looked at me and wrote something down on paper and he passed it to me to read and it went along the lines of we are being followed.

I take a deep breath in, I knew there could be a possibility for it to happen but right after the big attack in the mall it would to soon for a action of this to happen unless it was the remaining one that we couldn’t find.

I asked how he found out that they were dead and he said he passed by their bodies slightly buried under the snow and him being the second last in line that must have meant the others did not see or they did and said nothing to not cause distress, “Do you think the others saw them as well?” stupid question to ask now that I think about I was just thinking that yes the most likely did, “Yeah no doubt I relayed it to Ryan over the Private Network we all have up” that is good knowing him he will have a strategy to get this person.

I leave Jorgenson to set up his tent to stay in and make my post in snow at the top of the dune where I have the most coverage over the camp and surrounding area and with all this camo I have on I just look like any other mound of snow.

After some time roughly half an hour Kathrine walks up the mound and stand near me looking out into the white desert, “what is the plan to deal with the person tailing us” Kath Jumped and looked around then seeing the mound of snow with a long barrel sticking out it and breathed a sigh of relief, “Lure them in tonight capture them and bring them along for questioning once we reach our destination” she says back continuing her search, “This a risky plan to with we may even lose someone” that clearly hit a cord with Kath as she flinched with the mention of losing another person if it goes wrong.

she clenched her fists and took breath in, “that won’t happen again” she said in a tone that sounded angry of sorts I could be wrong but I may be pushing it, but I can’t help but smile for some reason most likely because she reminds of Marry a little very caring for everyone.

She walks back down after a couple minutes pass and the silence is back leaving me again with my own thoughts, and in wonder of who could be following us it easy to tell which side their from but who and why.