Downloading Corruption

"As I'm whistling for Amir and Zain to come down, my eyes find the sky The black and grey is a fitting backdrop to the muffled sounds of distant gunfire and mortars. It's 9 AM but it feels like dusk. The clouds on the horizon look like the result of all the shooting and bombing, the heaviness in the air a result of the blood and death. My mind keeps drawing these parallels between what I see and the war. Everything is affected by the war, even the sky, the air, the sun. Something thrusts the bal