The snow had stopped during his time in the cell and he could clearly see the massive green Chinook helicopter warming up, he also saw the two soldiers half dragging, half carrying Emily and Cory’s girlfriend towards the open loading ramp. It was at least five hundred meters from where Roland was standing to the helicopter and he could hear Emily screaming at the soldier who had lifted her up on to his shoulder as she pounded on the armor covering his back. “Let me go! Where’s my friend? Where are we goin’?” “Emily!” Roland yelled as he started running across the snow-covered cement, tripping over what he hoped weren’t bodies as he went. “Roland!” He heard her hopeful scream as the ramp was raised and the helicopter lifted off covering Roland in a miniature blizzard. Collapsing to his knees Roland watched the helicopter lift off into the night sky and quickly disappear to the east. Lowering his head, he could feel his eyes grow warm and moist as he realized the only person he knew in a world gone mad was gone and he didn’t know if he’d ever see her again.
