When Women Get Together
Things change
Significant weather disturbances hampered the army’s advance against its perceived enemy. The generals kept pushing them, though. Nothing was more important than fast, total victory.
The Bakli people and the Schmakli people had been fighting each other for centuries. War was a way of life for both of them. Boys were programmed with a war mentality as early as age 5. They were trained that fighting to the death was the ultimate virtue. The greatest heroes were those who killed the most enemy people.
But Mother Nature intervened in what could have been the greatest battle ever. The two armies were amassed just fifty miles from each other. Between them was a verdant valley full of farms. Much of the food supply for both people was grown in this valley.
As the two armies began marching toward each other, crops being trampled under boot and vehicle, a horrendous storm moved over the valley. Sheets of rain and grapefruit-sized hail pounded the troops. Yet they continued to march toward their enemy, eager to kill.
Then, just as the two armies came together, a mighty tornado came out of the clouds and ripped through both armies. Weapons were torn out of the soldiers’ arms. Men went flying through the air as did vehicles. Before a single shot could be fired in the battle both armies were…
