111. The visitors

Why is Jan shaking her so early in the morning? Jasmyn awakens, opens her eyes, and yells terrified at the soldier that now is pulling her arm. He wears metal scale fighting gear with his face hidden behind the closed visor of the helmet on his head and he has a machine gun in his other hand. Upset she tries to make sense of what is happening while she hears the screams of her fellow farmworkers somewhere else in their sleeping quarters. The rifle doesn’t resemble an R5 that the mercenaries use, but the unique metal scale gear they wear when they leave the camp looks the same. The soldier pulls at her arm without speaking as a gesture that she must get up.

“Fuck off!”