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Thoughts in Chaos
By Rune Grey
Chapter One
The pain was less
now. Or perhaps it was greater, and I can simply no longer feel
it as I once did, with my humanity stripped away from me by the
events of the past few years. Seventeen days out on the ice, and
still I had found nothing in this wasteland. If the pain that I
feel as I slowly freeze to death is intense, it is nothing next
to the agony I feel knowing that I have not found the vehicle of
our vengeance...
Another step, too far a part of me screams, and I fall to my
knees, the snow and ice biting into my flesh as I go down. I
can't feel anything below that... my feet must be completely
frost bitten by now. I am dying, but a matter of inches, each day
I continue this hellish quest another part of me slowly slipping
away.
What sustains me is my grief, my anger, and my thirst for
vengeance. It drives me onwards, propelling me towards the
horizon in front of me. I don't want to die, not yet. Not before
I have fulfilled my promise... my promise to myself, and my
promise to her.
None of the others understand... not Roni, not Krelian, no one.
Roni mourns the loss of a great leader. Krelian mourns the loss
of someone he respects, and dreams that he loves. None of them
knew her the way I did. None of them saw her with my eyes, felt
her with my hands. None of them ever truly appreciated the pain
that she took upon herself, in order to spare others the sorrow
and loss. And in the end, they repaid her with treachery, and
death.
I will find the instrument of their destruction, the vehicle of
our vengeance. Sophia, please understand... I will find it, and I
will live on. I will walked over their bodies and live on, as you
wanted me to... I just have to rest for a while...
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