2.2 The
Horn call
The drive out of the fortress was different from the
one which Geranium had taken before. Somehow words have gone out that the
Crusaders would ride again; yet no fanfare or celebrations surpassed that event
but solemn eyes with praying thoughts reached out to the pair who drove out.
Sergei in the sixth wheeler and Geranium on her mounted twin wheeler. As they
rode past the streets of the once famous city, they were touched by the people
who stood by the side, giving them the silent salute.
"Sergei, who could had told them?"
Geranium spoke into her comms unit on her helmet as she looked back to the
bridge and the fortress beyond. They have left there without much fanfare and
yet she felt that this was the mode that was adopted to wish them off.
"I doubt they need to be told, as the whole
community," named so on the people who seek their refuge there by Father
Mikhail, "had been waiting for this moment since the leader of the Faith
had announced the revival of the Crusaders."
"So they think their prayers are answered when we
carry out that task." Sergei completed his assessment of the reception
they were having. "They truly believed in us on this task and we shall
succeed."
Geranium swerved to avoid a barrier placed there by
the Fortress Guardians; places of barricades that were there to prevent any
attacks. As she passed it, she saw the four Guardians there standing at
attention to her passing. She had ridden past here before and none had given
her any salutes before until today.
"I guessed I am going to missed all of
this." Geranium gunned up her engine as the machine picked up speed
towards the direction of south. It was based on Sergei's request that they
travelled south as that was going into the inner part of United Europe. He
explained that the best place to pick up a trail was at the home of the prey.
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