HER NIGHT DUTY

After everyone had fallen asleep, Veronica's mission began. She just couldn't shut her eyes from all the problems and sleep in peace. She quietly went to the injured soldiers' camp. After coming here, seeing the injured people for the first time, her heart almost stopped. When the healers were busy healing people, she was sitting in the corner, shivering like a hysteria patient. Tears were falling from her eyes like a waterfall. The odor of blood almost made her puke.

Why do people kill each other? How could they hurt their own kind? How could humans be so merciless? – questions like these swirled in her mind. Nevertheless, there was no answer. She found no logical explanation for humans' odd behavior toward their own kind.

"Who is this?" Suddenly a man's voice came from a tent. It was a rough voice of a soldier.

Veronica flinched. Her heart skipped a beat in nervousness. She quickly wiped her tears before looking at the source of the sound.