One after one, men, women, children, all of them had fallen.
So many losses, so many of them.
Heart-breaking screams filling the eerie silence.
Blood soaking through the grass, glinting in the early hours of dawn.
And for once, books couldn't help. They couldn't bring back the dead, or make everything that had happened undone.
She fell to her knees, her hands clutching onto the grass, her eyes trained on the body in front of her.
Numbly her fingers reached out to touch the soft but cold skin of him. She lightly brushed through his red hair that was caked with blood and grime. She didn't dare looking into his eyes, too afraid of what she might find in them.
Guilt raced through her body as she continued to touch his hair. If she hadn't gotten distracted he wouldn't have had to push her away when the green light sped towards her.
Tears fell from her eyes and onto his cheek, making a small trail in the dirt that was layered over his skin after a year on the run.
Her fingers trailed down his face until they came to his lips that were parted in a silent scream and she felt the pain in her chest intensify, sobs escaping her own lips.
What have I done?
A hand touched her shoulder softly and she turned her head upwards, her brown eyes meeting green ones.
More tears fell down her eyes as she watched the heart-broken face of her friend as he took in the body in front of them.
"I'm sorry." She whispered, too quietly for anyone to hear, but somehow he still did and fell down on his knees, embracing her in a tight hug.
"I'm sorry I got distracted, I'm sorry for killing our best friend." She sobbed, her voice muffled as her face was pressed into his dirt covered shirt.
He didn't say anything, just tightened his grip and started to rock her back and forth, and she calmed down after some time, but refused to let him go, feeling like she would fall apart if she did.
"It wasn't your fault."
She wanted to argue, to yell at him, and she was about to, when she realized that he only wanted to help, and it would be wrong to take out her anger on him, so she didn't say anything, just buried her head deeper into his chest, listening to the strong and steady beat of his heart, and she was soon lulled to sleep by the sound, feeling peace for the first time in a long time in the arms of her best friend, and the savior of the world.