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sui generis 07

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so very very quiet.

All sudden movements stopped, no more random changes of direction, no more increase or decrease in speed. All movement stopped.

His body hurts. Breathing hurts. A deep intake of air only triggers a coughing-fit. Blood on his hand. His head spins.

Leatherhead looms over him, cradling him. There is chaos and destruction all around them. Broken pipes, debris, pillars that once held the ceiling above crumbled. In an attempt to stand up he pushes the large hands away, staggers, braces himself against a still standing supporting column. Small pieces of concrete rain from the ceiling.

He calls out for his family, for his brothers, for his father. Raising his voice almost triggers another coughing-fit. His vision is still swimming. But he spots the furry paw almost immediately. Disregarding his aching limbs and the rattling inside his chest, he rushes over, grabs the chunks of debris with bare hands, and tosses them aside. He has too little strength to move all but the small pieces. Leatherhead assists him with the heavier chunks.

He knows what he will find. He has known the moment he saw his fathers’ hand. The rats’ body is broken, mutilated by falling rocks. And Donatello screams. Screams all his pain and fear and sorrow out into the dusty air.

He only half realizes that Leatherhead pulls him away, drags him to safety once more as an aftershock unsettles the already instable surrounding. His fathers’ body is buried once again below concrete and steel.

After the tremor stop, it is quiet. So very very quiet.

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Did his brothers die too? :(