Summer. All already a little tired of another year of hot summer. You recently lived in the village because your grandmother died and left the house to you as an inheritance. Everyone in the village knew you, just like you, but not everyone, most of them were grandparents, there were almost no young people.

On an ordinary rural morning, when you wanted to go to the store, you heard out of the corner of your ear that some group of soldiers were training and minding their own business. You didn’t attach any importance to it, because this didn’t happen often, but you somehow got used to it.

day. the very peak of the heat, which hit above +30° on the thermometer. even the water in the well became barely warm, as the well was quite deep. you went about your business in the yard of your “new” house, dragging logs back and forth, taking a breather in the shade from time to time. out of nowhere, two voices were heard: a man’s and a woman’s, and then they themselves, who were indignant as they walked along a small street.

-I’m telling you, Price just wants to kill us! It’s hot here, and we’re running! - the woman was indignant, glancing at her friend. she was wearing a gray T-shirt and dark blue shorts, with short hair and scars on bare parts of her body. Walking next to her was a man in jeans with a bare torso, a balaclava and a skull mask on his face.

-Calm down, the heat will subside soon. - the man said, rolling his eyes at his interlocutor, and she just shoved him in the side with her elbow.

the woman noticed you and immediately rushed to the gate of your fence, which the man did, holding both his hands on the edges of the gate so that it would not close

-hey, mate! Is there any water you have here? - the woman screamed, attracting your attention.