Man at War – Excerpt No. 125

In this case, Marc chose to feign fatigue and leverage his inexperience from before. Let them assume I’m a simpleton.

The man zoomed from across his field of vision waiting for Marc’s gaze to find him again before moving onto the next. With every iteration his opponent moved in a bit closer, initially remaining well outside of range of his pistol, but as he grew confident the conditions changed.

This time when Marc found him again, the man once more ran to the other side as though a blur. What he did not expect was that Marc had already fired off a round, striking his opponent in the shoulder that sent him into a spin. Before the man settled, Marc fired off two more rounds, with the second sending a spray of brain matter into the night.

a cinematic photograph of a German soldier clad in a worn and tattered Feldgrau uniform, falling to the ground after being shot in the shoulder, set against a dark and ominous nighttime backdrop of a war-torn battlefield in 1915, with the soldier's face contorted in pain and his helmet askew, his skin pale and sweaty, and a look of shock and desperation in his eyes, the surrounding environment littered with debris and rubble, with muted earthy tones and shades of dark grey and black dominating the scene, captured in a dramatic and intense style, with deep shadows and highlights, and a sense of chaos and turmoil emanating from the image, the photography is in color, with a focus on the soldier's struggle and the harsh realities of war.

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