"I looked up at her, nodded my head, and bent over to pull my thong up.I then went to put my skirt on."No, leave them here." She grinned."L-leave them...? But everyone will see me?" I responded puzzled."Shh! Don't speak!" She snapped, "Yes, let them see you, it'll be fun for me to watch." She giggled.I was shocked and didn't want to perform that task."Go. Go on, or else I'll fire you right here where you stand." She ordered.She knew she had me right where she wanted, and I could tell from her tone. I glanced out at the road, he had been heading for my village but I had not noticed him miss the turn. “We are coming up to the Res,” I said, “there is a car park.”I knew that because there were also a half dozen stone shelters with rough benches in them, I knew them well, “Going to feed the ducks at the Res” was a common expression at school. I had always noticed a few cars parked up too but until this moment it had never dawned on me that they were there for the same reason as the huddled. 'Store closet, five minutes. XX.' The note read. Holy shit, he thought, this is unbelievable, does she really want me in the store cupboard with her? Apparently so. Once it had sunk in, he could not escape the board room fast enough. He returned to his desk and messed around a bit, waiting until most of the colleagues had gone, and then he snuck off down the carpeted hall until he got to the end. He looked around before opening the store cupboard door, hoping like hell that this wasn't some. So I’ve learned to forgive these poor fellows, who never could’ve saved me even if they had known I still had a heartbeat.He was left there, in the unnatural stillness of no man’s land but for the buzzing of insects. Even wind dare not touch the sickly green/grey air, still smelling of the toxic gas of the last chemical attack. The flattened, dead space had only one visitor that day - a reaper.Somewhere far from there, in an in-between place, clear of the smell and darkness of the battlefield,.