Reading the letter, Adria slowly bloomed into a smile, but by the time he got to the end, his smile and morphed into a terrible frown.
"Shit! That stupid woman!" he cursed.
....
"I heard he is finally out of the Medical center. Have you sent him the letter from Dr. Pearl?" Bridges asked his secretary.
"Yes, Sir! He will be leaving the for Avalon city first thing tomorrow morning."
"Good!" Bridges answered.
At the moment, Bridges was in all black. He was looking down through his window at the burial ceremony the troops had made for those lost at the last mission to the Hole.
He really wanted to go down there to show the troops that he understood their pain. But as leader and commander of the citadel, he had a strong responsibility to play away from the scene of common eyes.
