Smiling

by TrisanaChandler13

Sort of spoilers for Days of Blood and Starlight. This is about the symbol of the Chimaera rebels, carved into the faces of the slaver angels that were killed by the rebels.

Unnatural smiles, showing too many teeth, with too-red lips.

The battle-wearied soldiers sleep,

But what their rescuers do not yet know is the reason for those eerie smiles.

For their comrades shall never wake;

The dead soldiers smiles were permanently widened by enemy blades.

Cruel mockeries of mirth,

The faces of those dead shall haunt thowe who came too late.

Never fading, those bloody, lipless smiles.