A Meeting with the Enemy: Chapter Two
The soldiers lifted me into a truck with the other men who lay out cold beside me, which I also feigned. After a moment, I felt the truck continue on along the road, which happened to be bumpy after years of abandonment. It was a lot of effort to prevent my brows from scrunching together because of the rocking. A few minutes later, I was carried by the arms and legs into what felt like a cavern, with different voices shouting left and right. My back landed onto a hard bunk and another was pulled to my right into which another person, groaning in pain, creaked into. It was quiet beyond where the entrance was, but I still strained my hearing. I sensed no one within a three-foot radius around me and opened my eyes. A tent ceiling, dome-shaped. Medics running around, or helping people with injuries, and many unconscious. One doctor arrived to check on the groaning patient beside me and as he bent down with his back towards me, I sat up, slipped past him, and joined the rushing mix