Remembrance 0

I laid there for what seemed an eternity that day. A day long past… The cries of my friends, my family, the whole town seemed to crack and shatter before my very eyes, like a mirror broken by a childs cobblestone. Little did I know at the time that this was forever, not a dream. With the memories of the past in hand, the days seemed smaller, the years shorter… Still I lay there, motionless.

Yet I was not there for a year, but for a few hours. It seemed like a year. My mothers voice screaming, my sisters' crying, my fathers steel crashing with fate itself. The thoughts raced through my mind faster than the bolt of a crossbow. But, they created an even greater pain. A pain I would face for the rest of my life, a pain that would linger within my very soul, a pain that would strike down courage of a daemon itself. This pain… it would never…ever…go away…