Chapter 46: the kahuna III

Aisha had refused but knowing me, I could never take no for an answer. She had said that the Agent was working behind at some distances away from our own shelter, stretching a little further into the bushes, and far from where the settlers rushed to scavenge the last drops of rain water in their cistern. Her chadaree had been the perfect disguise. The garment covered my whole body from the top of my head to the ground, leaving only a mesh screen to allow for proper vision.

Once outside, I choked on the dust first and the air had been too dry that breathing it in had become a pain inducing task. My steps were uncertain at the initial stage but after some moments, I had blended perfectly into the crowds, seeing as my relaxed countenance had come across as anything but chary. The structures of buildings present were either collapsed to the last decimal or were in the form of bits and pieces which had remained from what looked like an obvious past explosion. Only an infinite trail of t