"What's with all this shaking?" a man in a tank top, his face glistening with sweat, asked in confusion. "It started a little while ago… It feels like an earthquake, with all that rumbling…"
"Yeah, and it comes in waves. So strange…" the man sitting across from him muttered, then changed the subject. "Guarding this gate every day is mind-numbingly boring. I wonder when we'll get to go out on patrol."
One of the men sitting with him at the main gate of Oasis immediately laughed. "You just want to go out and find some cigarettes, don't you? As if I don't know you—"
Before he could finish, a man who looked like their leader cut him off. "Someone's coming! Look sharp!"
The gatekeepers scrambled to their feet, peering into the distance.
