FvS: XY Part 1 (Falcon & Karl)

FvS: XY Part 1 (Falcon & Karl)

Karl had deserved this break. He had been busy delivering much needed plasma up at the front only to be caught up in doing surgeries as well. Then there was the drive back to home base in which he only got part way before stopping his truck and stretching his legs. He was safely within the Fish territory boarder. He didn’t feel threatened here. He stretched his arms and lay down across the hood of his truck looking up to the sky.

Clouds drifted by carelessly. They didn’t have to care about war. How could they? They were nothing more than ice crystals and vapors. Karl often found himself reflecting on the war since his brothers’ demise on the battlefields. The killing fields, as he sometimes called them. As far as he could see, nothing good ever comes out of harming others. At least being involved in medicine, he could stay away from some of the fighting. That was the problem. Only some. He stared in the face of so much bloodshed and horrific deaths. He had trouble shaking that from his mind. He longed for peace. But even during peace if it were to happen, he wasn’t sure that he could forget this.

Karl drifted in to his own thoughts only aware of what was above him. Safe was only safe for so long.