I wasn’t sure why I was running. Perhaps it was my lack of knowledge, or the fact that my parents would soon be awakened by the noises, and find my room empty and quiet.
The sound waves from nearby planes traveled through the thick air. I could now feel vibrations, light at first, and then increasingly powerful. I wasn’t sure what was happening, but I could tell it was something that none of us had ever witnessed. That no one in the community had ever felt. Could you blame us? We were accustomed to a seamless life of pain free activity. Nothing could ready our minds for the coming danger that lurked in the skies.
Life in our community was peaceful. It seemed peaceful, but in reality that peace turned into what it really was. An illusion brought on by our lack of knowledge. That day I realized something for the first time: the world wasn’t really as peaceful as some would have us believe. I was one of the people that night that was able to witness war for the first time. At the time I wasn’t even really sure what the definition of War meant. The only thing that I knew for sure was that our leaders had not told us the entire truth. They had cheated. The planes in the distance was not the thing that shocked us in the end. It was the fact that our leaders had something that we never knew existed: weapons.
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