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It was night time and the war was now over. We stood staring at the full moon; I exhaled and seen my warm breath dissipate in the cold air. We continued our trek through the unburied graveyard. The battle field was littered with thousands of bloody corpses. Bodies hacked and slashed, limbs sliced off, and body parts were scattered everywhere. There were even a few horse and dog carcasses. Everything was still and silent yet still an eerie presence loomed. It was a disgustingly horrid setting. In the distant a raven cried and flew off into the sky. “Dammit, this is what it came to?” I growled lowly. “All because the princess died giving birth to twins; it’s sickening.” Kyoma replied. We walked passed one of our dead comrades; he left his pregnant wife to join the war immediately after burying his mother that had just passed on. It was a horrendous calamity. Scents of steel, flesh, and death lingered heavily in the frigid night’s air and stained our senses. The soil beneath our feet was...

The feel of warm blood on my hands only made me feel more guilty. Jae had been taken under the cover of darkness and I was helpless to stop it. I left to give her the space and time she needed when the creatures of the night came and ripped her away without me knowing. I blamed only myself, how could I let things go wrong? It was my fault. Why didn't I see it coming? The feeling of her being gone tore a hole in my heart and soul. I was stuck in an empty, black, abyss of loneliness, confusion, and heartbreak. Jae was gone and it was my fault. I left only for a short while; what went wrong? Why couldn't I stop it? No matter how I went over every detail, every possibility, every circumstance, it was all my fault. I only blamed myself. Alone in the darkness of the home I built to protect her, I stood a dark soul-less figure, cold and empty. The feeling was slowly killing me. I was only doing what I thought was right when I left. Just outside the door of our home was the mangled bod...