Journey – Page 65

 

ELI

I look forward to seeing you here back. Without you we are lost.

 

He handles Yehoshua one of his pistols.

 

YEHOSHUA

In any case Eli, sleep in the cars and keep a good watch, so that no one surprises you below.

 

Yehoshua turns on the engine, increases his revs and the noise of the wind hits his back and ears. Then, he runs several meters and leaps over the railing of the roof of the abandoned office building. From there, sitting in the harness, he pulls the strings to raise himself to maximum height and steer himself above the deserted city.

Street after street, illuminated by the silver moonlight, pass him by. Not a single electric light is visible, the city is cut off without electricity and paralyzed. Here and there, however, it does seem to him that he sees the flickering of candles and he wonders if his imagination is deceiving him.

 

ANNOUNCER (VOICE OVER)

“Where the hell did everyone go?” wonders Yehoshua.  Severe feelings of fear and anxiety pass over Yehoshua as he flies alone over the deserted city. The noise of the engine on his back horrifies the unnatural silence. A city that froze and stopped at once.

 

After about twenty five minutes he finally arrives at his neighborhood, not before several volleys of tracer bullets are fired at him along the way fromsoldiers who heard the noise and recognized his parachute floating in the high sky. He raises himself to maximum height but still,

 

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