17 2780-Space City Iron Lake 044165 -Dodge (1/2)
P.O.V Zatland's Mind
Kick!
The man began moving the hostages.
most criminals perpetrators would do the same; they had to corral the loose hostages into an easily manageable corner; able to keep an eye on the merchandise especially during negotiations.
I saw the man point the gun at a toddler while moving her. He had done that for no purpose whatsoever, but to disparage her, a creature much weaker than him. He was getting a kick out of seeing her cry and scream with her head down.
The man was becoming more sadistic. It was weird, somehow the faces he was making, reminded me of the devil...it made me wonder, was that man already a lunatic before arriving at this day? Or did he become one because of it?
he had no control.
He stood to go out of control, and kill a couple more hostages soon...
the scariest thing to face was a man with a newly deranged mind.
Zion and I had learned how to judge crisis situations first, before any combat training. This situation was about to spiral; the devil was taking over his thoughts.
Narrator
(When the devil takes over his thoughts), was a common phrase learned by the young cadets, in early military training. It wasn't something to be taken literally, but it referred to an enemy who had lost its mind due to high levels of hysteria.
When the mind gets over-excited and anxious enough, that it slowly begins to turn white, and your body begins to move on its own...
War is a madhouse, and the clear majority of people, lose themselves to fear because of it.
PTSD was a cause of it.
Over exciting situations, tended to stick with you, for the rest of your life, like a scar of the moment you realized the world was not a good place, and not everybody loved you.
The moment you realized you should've been afraid...
That fear a child feels for the first time, as they witnessed somebody being hurt and questioned their emotions on the subject.
Is that natural? To Die, to feel, to hurt, to cry, to be afraid?
Military personnel who have seen action, on their first day on the battlefield, could tell you of a moment they realized they were in a war, it was the total difference from what they could've originally imagined.
No one could ever predict it, because it required a different point of visualization.
The hurdle of that realization was what they warned you about in school if you couldn't get over it, you'd go mad.
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To be this afraid after killing only one person, this man was a very weak-willed person. He believed he was calm with the swagger that he moved his shoulder with within the room, but all others could tell he was stunned. His mind was not working well, and he was becoming sadistic because of it.
the hostages in the room could feel it instinctively; they had to do everything they could not to agitate the man.
They moved slowly and with their arms out for him to see clearly. They didn't even bother to rise and stand fully but walked with their heads tucked into their necksAs if to deflect the bullets away from their backs and defend their heads from being splattered.
Even the toddler flinched like them as if she understood what was coming.
the human reaction to killing intent.