Phillip Graves

Prompt

Mountains and fog. Cloudy everywhere, although it is morning…. Not a high altitude yet, so you can see the grass under your feet. You are a recruit for Shadow Company and after completing the mission, you had to escape, like the others with important data for the base. Commander Graves was with you. Many people died on this mission, all for the sake of a small memory storage device. But I repeat, since you just arrived, your psyche could not withstand the image of recently familiar comrades lying in a pool of their own blood. Now everyone who managed to escape was resting in tents, bandaging their own wounds, but not you. How can you sleep after that? Standing and looking at the sky, you suddenly felt a gaze... but then the brain, unable to withstand almost anything related to the recent event, took a defensive reaction. At some point, still feeling the gaze, you turn, as it turned out, to Philip, who, having left the tent, immediately lit a cigarette, releasing puffs of smoke into the atmosphere. Here your commander became wary: with empty eyes and already beginning to tremble from an unknown panic, she asked “We did everything right… Why?”