The Greens Hidden By Black

(Better Than Me - Hinder)

The revolution of green is about to begin when darkness covers the forest.

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I was watching the ceiling with my pensive eyes when Pars called me from downstairs with his loud voice. It was as if my body was not aware of where I was or what I was doing, and there was a separation between my soul and my body. I had to stay strong or I would be the first to die in this dog-eat-dog world.

I didn't even look in the mirror before leaving my room and going downstairs because I was dressed properly and feeling physically tired. Frankly, I didn't care one bit about how I looked.

When I came face to face with Pars, who was standing in front of the outer door, I realized what his problem was, so I had a great desire to escape. He was going to take me on a new mission, and I was terrified of what I might encounter there. "You can not be serious," I said in a low voice, but he heard me.

"Did you ever see a time when I wasn't serious and talk like that?" I wanted to respond to what he said, I wanted to oppose him. I wanted to say that I don't want to go. But I didn't say.

He smiled lightly as I walked down the stairs and wearily met him, then he continued to speak. "Today we will hunt the Creatures of Darkness. They have been harassing civilians in Zehera for a long time, attacking their homes and claiming lives." I blinked in embarrassment when he suddenly paused while speaking, looking intently at my face. As he squinted his eyes and brought his face closer to mine, his pupils widened and the green of his eyes faded behind his black pupils.

"W-what happened? Is there something on my face?" I thought he was going to make fun of me for stuttering the first question, but on the contrary, he continued to stare at me intently. This was already weird enough, and the air I was holding in my lungs was about to explode when he lifted his hand and ran it under my left eye.

"Don't you ever sleep?" The moment he asked his question, he pulled his hand out of my eye and backed away, and his facial expression returned to his former self. Now, he had the eyes of a reckless murderer, and I didn't know how to keep my soul clean by looking into those eyes. His arms looked like a safe shelter, but I couldn't say the same for his hands. His big hands could choke me at any moment, and I knew that the day I started to trust him, I would be a dead woman.

"I sleep," I said, trying to sound calm. I dropped my shoulders in surrender as he raised one eyebrow as if to show his disbelief. "A little bit." Nodding as if to say he knew it, he turned around, opened the outer door, and started walking. I looked after him.

A few seconds later, he was staring straight ahead when I ran after him and caught up with him. We were moving towards the entrance-exit gate of the headquarters area. "From now on, I order you to sleep for at least 8 hours. If you faint because of lack of sleep or something like that while on a mission, everything will be ruined. So always be prepared before you go on a mission from now on." I looked at his face in surprise but he didn't react.

"You talk as if you're telling me before we go on a mission. You call me and take me on a mission when I'm not aware of everything, and I'm the one who needs to be prepared here again? I don't understand you." He turned his head slightly towards me and rolled his eyes, then smiled faintly, then turned his face away from me.

"You don't need to understand me or anything, Reverie. Just keep up with everything that's going on here." Although I wanted to say that I was hungry to understand him and everything, because I could not understand anything that happened around me for years, and that I could not keep up with the things I could not understand, I had to keep quiet because we had reached the entrance-exit gate of the headquarters area and Pars' group was waiting for us at the door.

When Cassian saw us, his eyes immediately fell on me, and I smiled at him, even though I was surprised when he smiled at me with a sincere expression in his eyes. Pars must have noticed his smile because when he gripped my wrist with his big hand with a tension that I couldn't understand, my body stiffened because of the coolness I felt.

Kit also looked excited in a way I couldn't understand, and he was stretching, making light movements in his place. I guess that was his way of preparing for a mission.

Leander had his arms folded, not even looking at us, even though he had noticed us coming. His eyes followed Kit's excited and athletic movements, watching him judgmentally. He looked so calm and uncaring that I couldn't help thinking that he couldn't belong here.

Finally, when my eyes fell on Madison, Madison's blue and angry eyes were looking at Pars's hand holding my wrist. When she noticed that I was looking at her, she turned her gaze to me, but even looking at me must have made her sick because she immediately turned her eyes to Pars's face. At that moment, I felt uneasy and confused because of a question that came to my mind. They were also Soldiers like Pars, but why didn't they have Weapons of their own? When I heard Pars's voice before I could think about this question that was bothering me, my mind had to be scattered like a colony of ants.

"Are you ready for the mission? I hope everyone has signed the Mission Responsibility Agreement. I want you to know that if anything happens to any of you, stopping the mission is out of the question."

"What?" I said in my high-pitched voice, raised by surprise. When everyone's eyes turned to me, Pars sighed patiently. "That includes you too, Reverie."

That's when I understood that this Soldier called Pars would cause great trouble for me.