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The dawn of night...
Running….running…always running, well that’s life in the military run, run and then when you are too tired to run, run some more. Hooah! Oh well Jackson Wylde signed up for this didn’t he? After college he wanted to do something more with his life than pursue the normal rat race nonsense. So he entered Army OCS right as the long awaited Sino-American war finally broke out. It was a different kind of war though, quick, exceptionally violent and dirty. By the time Jackson had made it through his initial training the war was near its midway point. At that time the war was pretty much a stalemate so the Army turned to desperate drastic measures and called for volunteers….
Now two years later he found himself running through mountains outside of Tibet on a cold winter night, he’d just slaughtered a Chinese fireteam and he couldn’t stop, couldn’t control himself. They said there would be side effects and negative aspects to the gifts they gave him…but he never expected this…
He came across a yak, and with a swift and precise movement it was dead, its hot blood staining the pure white snow of the slopes. He kept running. Another yak appeared in front of him and then behind him another yak was dead. Then he saw her, the raven haired angel standing with her back to him admits the pristine pure white snow of the mountains.
Without thinking…he was well beyond thought at this point anyway…only instinct only reaction. He ran and leapt and was gone again leaving only a tattered shirt and some footprints in the snow behind him.
The snow began to fall and the sun set…but in a secluded mountain cave the long night was only just beginning…
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