prophecy

I continued to fall for a while until everything stopped.

unable to move, I could only stand there as my mind drove me through the events at play.

The world had turned to ash, the sky dyed red in blood and fire. Chained together a row of prisoners were being taken in a row to the center of a courtyard. Fallen soldiers body's littered the ground, but their deaths were not enough. The prisoners in front of me were being led to a block to be beheaded.

being moved into the center of the area, horror filled me as I recognized the faces of the men and women in chains.

my friends and my lover were being cattled for the slaughter, and I was helpless to stop them.

A group of soldiers in black field in the clear space of the courtyard. clearing a path their leader stepped forward.

black soulless eyes sat ……