Late Night
Late at night, when the lights were finally dimmed and no one was around to witness, he cried. Not the wild sobbing of the hopeless, nor the bawling in fear that might have overtaken lesser men, but the simple silence of quiet tears sliding from beneath his closed eyelids, making long, lonely tracks across his face to land lightly on the sorry excuse for a blanket that he used to pillow his head.
He didn't cry for himself. As a sky knight, he had less concern for his own well being in the face of the uncertain fate of his comrades. No, his tears were far too dear, too precious, to waste on himself. Even with the glass shards imbedded in his skin, slowly becoming toxic.
He didn't weep for his country or even the war. Right now, caged in the four grey walls that made up his world, those things were too far away to even be considered real. The outside world was slipping inexorably away from him, and he could do nothing but watch it vanish in the misty corners of his mind.
His tears weren't even for his squadron. By this point, the logical part of him knew that they were either dead, captured, or they had given him up for lost.
He prayed that was the case, when he could force himself to remember their faces. They didn't deserve this fate that he had endured for so many months. He hoped that they had listed his name among the casualties of this war. He couldn't bring himself to wish to see them again, since it would likely be as fellow prisoners.
So…late at night…when the stars he could no longer see winked into existence over the great empire of Cyclonia…he cried.
But he didn't know why.
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Author's Note: Total word count: 300
Wow, that was kinda… intense. Surprisingly, this blurb of inspiration came to me while I was sitting in line waiting for a new ID card on base.
I know I promised to write more, and I will, but I am now juggling evening work out sessions, two college classes this session, and my family, not to mention work, so updates may not be as quick as they once were. I shall try, though!
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