DianaFor the next few hours, all I'm able to focus on is the fight. I block out the deaths I'm witnessing, compartmentalizing the horror so I can function. My world narrows to the immediate threat in front of me—dodge this claw, strike that weak point, protect this rogue.I move through the battlefield like a ghost, my body acting on pure instinct while my mind retreats to a place where the screaming can't reach me. Blood coats my hands, my clothes, my face. Some of it is mine, but most belongs to others—creatures, rogues, fellow warriors.Slowly, agonizingly, we begin to turn the tide. The creatures fall one by one, their unnatural bodies finally succumbing to our relentless assault. Each death is hard-won, paid for in blood and exhaustion.Finally, mercifully, the last creature is killed. A massive thing that looked like a wolf crossed with a rhinoceros crashes to the ground with a final, shuddering breath. The battlefield falls momentarily silent except for the labored breathing of
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