Chapter 3: To make a man see

I wake with a slight jitter, Today is a doing day, a day of celebration, for today eight years ago I was born .

I hope the caretakers are willing to celebrate today.

I get up out of my cot, I sleep secluded alone in a shack as my nightly mumbling disturbs the other children, I put on my cloths, I was able to find some proper cloth so my clothes no longer have holes.

The air around me holds a chill, tingling my skin and clouding my breath as I walk to the main building.

"Hello?" I ask as I walk into the mess hall, Hmm, all I can find Is discarded food and cutlery, I look at the sun outside, I haven't missed breakfast it is still the morn.

My head snaps around, there is is, it reeks of foult and forgetfulness, a blue flat top cap with a silver embroidered red band.

"resistance?", the others must have went to the safe room, we were warned that this may happen, the military had collapsed one of the battle lines nearby so anyone living on the borders was warned of possible invasions and raiding's.

I wander through the building slowly, listening, feeling, I move towards the mistresses quarters.

I hear a thump and a crack, likely a door breakin- *CRAckK*

I feel the cold on my back, and steel on my chin, my eyes show me dances of the cosmos as my skull screams, My eyelids attempt to resist me as I force them open looking at my assailant.

"YOU TELL WHERE OTHERS!" I feel spittle hit my face as I stare at the beast in front of me, He cannot even speak my tongue and yet he thinks to command me, I feel warm steel press against my chin hard, ah . . . He has a gun.

"no" the eyes grow in numbers watching me critically from every angle, I feel them looking through the man making eye contact, but even amongst the thousands of eyes I manage to pick one in particular out, it has a glowing gold iris, it looks more intelligent than the other eyes, more aware, more real.

"YES, I WILL KILL YOU"

"no" I look hopefully at the golden eye, somehow this will work out . . . right?, "in your moment of need ask and thy shall receive, give oneself a purpose serving another, prove thou reverence and favor will bleed from thou soul", those words, I recognise them, the sensation of understanding, words that truly reach my mind.

oh lord, with a body of knowledge, blood of energy, skin of fear and mind of unity, Gift unto this man understanding, the sight of his wrongs and the fear of reality, I beg preserve this life and it shall be yours, "truly?, I always knew you were a good choice", The eyes are gone, I feel no gazes on my body, no lies in my soul, and I know no riddles bind my mind this day, no falsehoods deceive me.

"RHAAUGE NO, IT CRUBLES A WORLD CONSUMED BY FIRE, A PLACE OF NUL, NO LIFE TO FIND IN THE ANTITHESIS OF EXISTANCE, A GOD OF STEEL IS A LIE, FAILURE IS FORGIVENESS" -*BRAcK-pLorque*

faster than I can see the rifle is flipped turning on its holder and firing blasting the mans head apart like an over-ripe melon, I feel blood douse my shirt as the rifle lands in my arms, Gripping the weapon I stumble to my feet.

I glance down at the corpse, his brain has eyes?, I know in my mind that these eyes are real, not constructs of mind and magic like those that gaze upon me every day.

*bang - pa-bang - banbang*

I shoulder my rifle and make my way deeper into the building as I hear the gunshots, Within moments I come across another body, this one in a similar state to the one I just left, praise be the lord and his sight, scorn be the disbelievers and fearful .

Making my way to the office I find the help beacon already triggered, the mages should be here soon then, for the first time in years I grin, I cant wait to meet the mages . . .

well . . . this was a short chapter, I- ugh, yea so my next idea couldn't really fit seamlessly with this so im gonna have to use a split between chapters, sorry

please criticize my work