The Saving Tree

Bullets started flying everywhere in the open plain. Schmuck fires back and Rio runs for the Willow tree. She makes it. Schmuck follows, firing shots for his protection. After he is sheltered behind the trunk, he looks back. Grover is charging the enemy. Schmuck yells to him, but his voice is drowned in the sound of rounds being unloaded. The bullets tear through his body once again. Grover persists until his lifeless body falls to the earth. Schmuck whispers to himself, “you will not be forgotten.”