LOVE IN VENGEANCE
My tears spilled onto his lifeless face, mixing with the blood.
But he didn’t move. He wasn’t coming back. The reality broke me in ways words could never explain. Something inside me shattered.
I forced myself to my feet. “Mother,” I whispered before turning into a scream. “Mother”
I stumbled outside and froze. Bodies were everywhere, men I had grown up with, men who had trained me with wooden swords, laughed with me at the fire. Now they were scattered across the ground in twisted, unnatural positions.
I turned sharply to one of the soldiers staggering toward me, clutching his side, his cloth was drenched in his blood.