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Essay / Nightmares and memories - 1025
Leo exhaled, his breath swirling in the moonlight. Her cool, golden skin was pale olive from the freezing wind. He glanced at the moon and shook his long, dark, curly mane that sent snowflakes onto his winter coat and boots. He walked carefully down a dead end that he knew well. Streetlights flicker as he clutches his gun as he passes deserted house after deserted house. These houses were once home to the familiar faces of the friends he grew up with, now abandoned with boarded windows and doors swinging open in gusts of wind. Cars buried in snow, broken windows and flat tires create an obstacle course that blocks the cracked cement road. The silence makes his hairs stand up and goosebumps begin to form on his back, his eyes are fully dilated and the only sound is the crunch of the snow beneath his feet. He stops in front of a house with a hand-painted doom sign, his eyes watering from what he witnesses. “Leo, bring her to me.” A strange mysterious female voice said, Leo's eyes lit up and he started turning around frantically to locate where the strange voice was coming from. "Good morning !" He shouts out loud, which is only met with complete silence. “Hello, who’s there!?” He shouts again as he raises his gun, unsure of what could be hiding in the darkness. He walks nervously towards the middle of the cul-de-sac and faces a small brick house on a slope. His eye widens and his breathing begins to become heavy as he lowers his gun toward his jeans. The windows of the brick house, boarded up with wooden boards, and the red window shields were crooked and hanging from one or two solitary screws. Small patches of dead grass poke out of the snow and the three front law trees are withered and dead. The rocky driveway held a Nissan car in the middle of a paper... "Damn Leo, you can sleep through a tornado, we might have trouble waking up!" Said Amber surprised. “It was all a dream” thought Leo. "What is this !?" " Leo said rubbing his eyes trying to bring himself back to reality. " Something's going on at the warehouse over the hill, I heard a loud noise that sounded like a crash, we better check it out . " Leo looked at Amber almost blankly, still thinking about what he had just dreamed. For a girl, she is quite tall with long brown hair, brown eyes, and olive skin. "It's okay, you have l "Looks like you saw a ghost?" "Crazy dream" "Well get your mind out of the gutter and concentrate, we might have some zombies to kill but on a positive note, if that sound was a vehicle we can use it and look for Zion," Amber said, smiling at Leo while tossing him his jacket and backpack. "Alright, give me a second"