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The Dorms

Author: Zane Celmens
last update publish date: 2021-09-01 15:06:14

Zane eagerly put on the PT clothes, which were gray pants and a white shirt, as well as sword dagger and holster back on. He was determined to do my laundry next so he exited the room with his dirty clothes, locked the door and put the key in his pocket . 

He turned and walked down the hallway to the stairs. He hit the bottom of the stairs and almost ran into someone. Startled at first, he dropped his clothes and threw a fist at the man’s face. The man dodged and took a step back.

“Whoa buddy, easy!” The man exclaims.

Zane snaps back to reality, realizing where he is and lowers his fists. He steadies his breathing and apologized:

“I’m sorry, I’m still in my survival mode. I just got here, my name is Zane.”

The man, who Zane now looked at clearly was about 5 '9, a bit taller than him, had shaved blonde sandy hair, a muscular build, and large hands. He had camouflage pants and a camouflage shirt on with sunglasses so he couldn’t see his eyes and he seemed to relax a bit. 

“Easy man, my name is Talons. I just got here two months ago. It was a bit surreal at first, eh?” He said this very slowly.

“Yeah it’s a little overwhelming to think I can sleep in a bed again.” 

“You betcha! They will either train you up or set you up on patrols soon..” He spoke with an accent that could be placed as Canadian.    

 “Yea I hope I can contribute enough to help out but I should be fine when it comes to that.” Zane was starting to calm down and his heartbeat was steadying, the adrenaline fading.

“Well I will leave you be and be on my way, see ya around guy.” He spoke cheerily and went on his way.

Zane picked his clothes up and went to the laundry room. He loaded the clothes into the washer and noticed there was no detergent. Whatever, clean is clean, he told himself. Zane set the cycle, then went to sit on the couches in the common area while he waited. 

Soldiers came and went as he waited the forty-five minutes, some waved others didn’t, they seemed preoccupied as they went to and from. The washer dinged, then he got up to transfer his clothes into the dryer. As he finished Daniels came into the barracks.

“Heya there you are!.” He seemed happy to see Zane. 

“Yeah, just about to finish the laundry. What’s up?”

“You’re going on patrol tomorrow morning. In 10 hundred hours, be ready.” He stated.

“So soon?” Zane was very surprised.

“Yeah it’s just a city patrol so you should be fine. There has been no sign of Pales lately.”

“What is ten hundred hours?” Zane asked.

“Standard military time. It’s about ten o’clock AM.” Daniels told him.

“Alright imma be ready by ten.” Zane responded. 

“Alright cool see ya then. Oh yeah, the mess is six to eight, be there early to get food.” He told Zane.

“Alright, I will be there.” Zane replied.  

Zane went and sat on the couch til the dryer dinged, after that he grabbed his clothes and headed back to his room. Zane set his clothes neatly folded at the foot of the bed to change into in the morning, set the alarm for seven, after that he set his weapons on the nightstand and the sword standing up against it. From there he got into bed and fell asleep almost instantly as his head hit the pillow. 

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