Well, where am I working today? Hopefully the same as yesterday as the easiest thing I did was brush ice off the walls while Tiurin chipped the ice off blocks. HA! That was funny that he, the team leader, was doing back aching jobs while others got it easy.
I sat down and waited for the team to regroup. Tiurin was the last to show as he would have made sure we weren’t bumming in sick bay.
“So… what are we up to today?” I said shivering after a chill tingled down my back from a strong wind.
“Having a massive feast, then having fun with those lovely lady students from yesterday.”
I turned around to be winked at. It was Kilas, pulling another joke as usual, that’s why I liked him, always cheering up the team.
It fell silent and I knew everyone was waiting to feel something other than numbness before saying something.
“Brrrr…” Tiurin murmured, trying to get out words. “Right, those who were stacking the mortars should almost be finished so when you are…umm… half of you help mix up some more and the rest…” he trailed off.
What is wrong with Tiurin, he usually knows exactly what we have to do. Now he just isn’t explaining fast enough. He must have had a bad night, which means a bad day… for all of us.
“Well when you are done just…fuck…find me and I will tell you then.” Tiurin sighed, “The rest of you know what to do except you,” he was pointing at me, shit is that good? “Your coming with me, O.K.? lets go.”
I felt like saying ‘NO, Its too fucking cold.’ But I said “O.K”
I always tend to do that, say something totally different to what I think I am saying or want to say. But without another word spoken we all got up and I felt another gush of wind give me a chill down my spine.
I had been walking with Tiurin for a few minutes now until I finally said “Do you think we could get a snowstorm today?”
“Well since you asked that yesterday and there hasn’t been one for weeks, I won’t answer that.”
Well fine, fuck you, I was only trying to make conversation. “Yea, there hasn’t been one for ages,” is what I really said. What is wrong with me, I’m thinking of bad things towards my leader so we really must be heading towards a bad day.
“Aaachuu” I hated sneezing in the cold, it hurts my chest.
“Aaa…” this time I held it in but it hurt even more.
“Aaachuu,” jeeze, I wish I could control sneezes.
Suddenly there was a crack and I spun around but couldn’t see anything beyond a metre because of the fog.
“CRACK” there it goes again, this time I spun around to the direction I was heading and again, there was nothing. But Tiurin knew what it was, he was looking at the sky.
Could it be…a snowstorm? That’s just crazy; Tiurin said assuredly a moment ago that today will be like any other.
The wind was picking up and it was getting harder to see because the wind was blowing around the sleet so I was squinting to prevent it from getting in my eyes.
The camps siren begun to warn us of a snowstorm but it was echoing so I couldn’t tell which way the camp was.
“This way” called Tiurin “We have to round up the rest.”
“So much for an average day then.” But I was drowned out by the thunderous noise.
I was following Tiurin but I had no sense of direction because I was worried how heavy the storm would get.
Within less than a minute, we were at one of the village houses and within moments Kalis was with us. I saw others regrouping to head back to camp but I couldn’t work out who they were. I turned to head back with Kalis and… Tiurin, where did he go?
