Thrilling Storm
The yellow-robed female impatiently questioned.
A gust of wind rippled through the open window, fanning about the foul blood that leaked profusely from the unresponsive girl. As if deaf to the woman standing over her, she continued her quiet chant.
"Once upon a time, in an empire long fraught with war, there lived a saint who loved her people."
Away she would drift, deep into the endless abyss, into the belly of darkness. Away so far that when the light chased, when the torch flared, she would not see it.