A Plea

The siblings had returned home. Mom angrily asked their reason for being late.

"I Told you to come home early. Where were you off to?"

"Vihaan saw the wanderers returning from their expedition and was watching them."

"You were the one who told me about them."

"Enough arguing about it. Let's eat supper. Dad will be coming home soon."

He said "Even though he works for the government. He doesn't talk anything about it."

"Vihaan, he can't talk about his works to us and he is not allowed to."

Vihaan was disappointed with his mother's answer and he ate his supper. Suddenly he heard someone knocking on the door, it was his dad.

"Welcome home dad!" both Vihaan and Easter greeted in unison.

He smiled at them and sat down and started breathing deeply and calmed down a bit. He looked a little tense.

His mother worriedly asked "What are you so worked up about, Ivan?

"It's nothing, just a little bit of work stress."

"Is there something going on again with the shield?" She curiously asked.

Ivan in a calm tone said "My dear if there was anything wrong, the government would have notified or issued a warning. You may not need to worry about anything."

She stood up and started prepping the dishes. "Vihaan, could you burn the timber that you brought earlier."

Sure Mom"

While eating supper Carla said to Ivan about Merca.

"Do you what happened to Merca?"

"Yes, it has been a year already, and his body couldn't even be recovered."

"I heard from Nina that she was going to have a funeral for Merca. I think that we should also help her in any possible way."

"Yes, I think that we should do that."

They started eating. After finishing he was just about to head to his room when his Mom said "Have you arranged your books for tomorrow's classes?"

"Yes Mom, I have." Then he all of a sudden remembered about the book he found in the basement that he had put in his bag. Again he started to have a headache.

"Are you fine?"

"Ya, you don't need to worry, I am gonna go."

He was thinking all night about that book. He had never seen a book of that type. The paper was so smooth and the handwriting was so good. He wanted to show it to his friends but was in fear that his mother would find out.

He stopped thinking about it and went to sleep.

In his sleep, he heard something "Hey can you hear me? If you can hear us, please respond? We need your help to save us from them. I think only you are left who can help. If by any chance you try to find us we will be at U-46." And the voice goes static.

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