• It had been raining all day in the sleepy city. An event marking the beginning of Autumn, dilatory after a four month long heat wave. The dams were dry, and the grass dead. Water restrictions imposed to prevent the desert bound city shriveling up to nothing. Though it wasn’t uncommon to see someone determined to fight the last fight and rescue their prized lawns from the suns grips, armed with a garden hose, water rolling lazily off the grass and trickling by the kerb along the roads edge. Rain was more than welcome, an unfamiliar comfort. The wind whistled earily through the trees and the sky, a brooding grey hung ominously low. I’d get no sleep tonight. I’d want none, revelling in the rare occurance. I didn’t fare well in the blistering heat of the Summer. Tall with pale skin to match the long auburn hair that hid my eyes from view. If you did get the chance to see them they were a piercing green, but few ever did. There was one however. An unlikely boy - man he insisted, but with the trigger happy habits of a boy none the less. He knew me more than most did, and this was no coincidence. He was like me. The only one like me, one that could hear what others couldn’t.