Hello, this one has been rotting on my drafts and since its December it felt fitting. Itâs still just a draft but Iâll finish it, someday.
Ghostâs Ten Steps to Survival.
Cold is a luxury during summer.
Moist windows replace the sun beams that would wake Ghost up in the mornings. He lifts his heavy eyelids, checking the clock by his side table and seeing it three hours past six am.
The sounds of shovels digging through snow, scraping against the asphalt replaces the rhythmic marching of new cadets, Ghost savors the tea as warm as the cold wind breeze would allow it to.
The soft flipping of pages, the smooth yet hard texture of leather replaces the cold stern shuffles of paper reports. Ghost leisurely reads through pages and pages of fictional wonder, a book suggested by Soap.
Soft breathing, a squeaky mattress, and shifting sheets replaces the cold winter nights. This year, Ghost has the luxury of sweat free masking, thorough book reading, and Johnny.
People, however, do not have the luxury of time.
December festivities do not excuse criminal activities, if anything it became a seasonal hotspot. Holiday leave, lowering most patrols, surveillance team having less staff, and the rest of the world being busy this festive season, so it comes to no surprise when Task force 141 receives a mission report instead of gifts this Christmas Eve.
Itâs supposed to be just a simple ambush, the team waits and intercepts a suspicious vehicle. Simple as it sounds, gone through several times and over, itâs supposed to be a flawless mission. Wait, attack, gather, and leave, right?
Though, not everyone has the luxury of simplicity.
Like a painting, each brushstroke having its own meaning, accompanied with hundreds of streaks, touches, marks and lines forming a thousand piece artwork.
They find themselves in a snowy landscape, branches protruding through layers of snow, and the contrast of blood red in white white snow.