Wed, 04 Oct 2017 01:45:58 GMT

[ Ajay doesn't realize what a blessing the helicopter is until they're rising into the air once again. The shrine is shrinking below them, his mother is finally at rest, but all Ajay registers is a cold, hard panic filling his chest.

They need to go back. This is all just been one long, insane mistake. He still needs the urn, needs his mother, needs to run his fingers over the metal engraving one last time and say one last thing before --

Noise and wind whip through the cabin, deafening the other passengers to his hitched breathing and drying his tears before they fall. He's calm once again before the doors close, too exhausted to give in to the despair for more than a moment. Even his fear feels dull and far away to Ajay, as though the events from the past few hours had happened to someone else entirely. He ignores the headphones he is passed until he can't stand the roaring engines any longer, but even after Ajay puts them on, no one speaks to him. He pretends to take in the scenery below at first, then simply shuts his eyes, overwhelmed.

When the helicopter's descent draws Ajay back out of his own whirring thoughts, he catches Pagan's gaze across the cabin for a beat, then turns almost immediately to look out the window. He fumbles with the headphones, but Ajay can hear his question, fuzzy and tinny through the headset, so he assumes the others can hear him as well. ]

Where are we?

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Ajay Ghale ( Far Cry 4)