them they were destroyed, before my very eyes they breathed their last
and were no more. One moment they were normal and healthy, and the next
they disintegrated, falling into little heaps of limp skin and bones. In
that moment I felt a horror such as I have never felt before, a complete
loneliness, like a night that never ends. There was no one, nothing,
around me. The force of the blast had leveled the already flat terrain
completely. The ocean was suddenly solidified into the same lifeless,
inorganic mass that the land had become. Across the channel, Daem was no
more. There were no more trees, no more grasses, no more cities, no more
mountains, everything was leveled, decimated. The sky began to turn a
dark, bloody red, and the sun was hidden behind it. Like a disease it
spread across the horizon, devouring the light hearted blue and leaving
only red: lifeless, deathless red. There was no wind, no sound. I was
all alone, I alone had survived the blast because of my anti-electron
suit. I gazed in absolute horror across the field where only seconds
before thousands souls had been congregated. I looked at its emptiness
and I saw nothing, for there was nothing. They were all dead. Every
single one of them.






Chapter 14: Past and Future



I have no recollection of how long I stood there staring blankly into
the void, for the sun was hidden behind the darkened sky. I have no