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Click

Click!
Remember the training?
Remember the warnings?
“Watch your step” they said.
“Look for the unusual”.
Now you have found the unusual. What makes a click under your foot?
You look around. No one from your squad can be seen. Anywhere. The jungle is heavy, the foliage thick. Sure you could call out, but your buddies aren’t the only ones listening.
Sweat trickles down your neck.
You look at your foot. Can’t see anything of course. Whatever made the noise is under your foot.Want to look? Want to lift your foot?
What makes that metallic click when your foot lands on it?
You look around again. Nothing. Nobody.
Strange. Standing here, an unidentified click under your foot, you notice the absence of animal noises. Why do you notice that?
What to do? What? What?
Panic now. You have been standing still for moments – it seems like ages. Your foot is cramping. You will to have to move some time.
What will happen then? What will happen? Will the click come back?
Still no one else about.
Your foot slowly rises.
Click!

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