Dancing with flames (Greg Dombrowski)
We thought it wouldn't affect us. We were as stupid as to think the One World Nation Movement matter was something which only concerned the European, American and some Asian nations. We would have never thought, not in a million years, that there would be revolutionaries in our continent. We reacted, I say, too late.
Then they appeared, in the middle of the night.
The didn't make any noise. Somehow, I woke up. When I looked through the window I saw a phantasmagorical light. From hundreds of torches lighting up the way to the royal family's residence.
I ran just with nothing but the clothes on. I had to warn them. That couldn't end up well. I felt a cold sweat all over my body...I still remember it and shake like a pup.
I got to the street. The silence was broken by the screams. Those screams still haunt me.
The torches were not only for knowing where they were going. It was a way to make sure the royal family left the building.
(...)
And what could have I done?
(...)
Yes. It's true. An instant of pain, and the burns would heal soon. I could have get them out of there and taken them somewhere safe. But they were too many...I couldn't have done anything...I couldn't have helped them escape even if I wanted to.
I could only see how they waited. And it didn't take long for them to see them coming out.
...It still makes my blood cold to remember how the wives of the king screamed when, one by one, they were grabbed like animals and grabbed away from their children. All of those children left to their fate in the flames, snatched from their mothers' arms...
Finally the one they were looking for came out and was received with a rock rain, kicks and punches. I don't know how he survived to that. But it's not surprising to me he ended up badly. There was so much contained anger. He was not popular at all. He was an absolutist monarch and any attempt of democratization, unionization, was severely suffocated. Those brutes said they only did to him what he deserved.
I don't like to say it, but I was so scared I let them do what they wanted to me too...
