Confused, bewildered, lost.
His mind shattered trying to soothe the pain that consumed him, his stomach churned as his insides screamed for him to stop. The mental weariness only drove him to keep walking, searching for a place that felt familiar.
Where were those destroyed buildings?
Where were the gray clouds?
Where were the flames that surrounded him?
Where was he?
A phantom pain pressed against his chest, an illusion that slowly faded away. His feet dragged through the snow, leaving trails in an uncertain direction. The damned cold coursed over his skin, the freezing snow enveloped him. His vision, deteriorated, and the fog made him feel trapped in a maze with no exit.
He grunted with every step, thinking this could be the path to another life. Could it be? Was that light he saw before the light at the end of the tunnel?
The ironic thought that perhaps he was heading to hell crossed his mind. Curious, for someone not so religious, to think that it existed after all.
He kept walking, as if it were automatic. Why continue when the battle was already over? When he had fulfilled his mission, when he had already defeated it.
It was time to leave... or not? Perhaps, before departing, he wanted an answer, an overview of things. Something to confirm that what he did was worth it.
A light filtered through the clouds, offering him a new perspective on what lay ahead.
The young man with green hair blinked with difficulty.
"Where... am I...?" he whispered, feeling the pain in his body preventing him from moving forward.
He fell to his knees, sinking into the snow, as his eyes slowly closed and his mind descended into darkness.
He didn't know where he was, nor if it had been worth it in the end...
His death...
The crunch of footsteps in the snow blended with the sound of static, accompanied by the murmur of radios and small metallic jingles.
"Well, what do we have here?" The human figure crouched beside the unconscious one and communicated something over his radio. "Hey, Romani! You were right! The radar wasn't wrong; there was someone out here!"
To be continued...