Day 016.1: 2 Craters
The battlefield was covered with bodies. The ground was completely covered, if not with bodies, with blood from all the carnage. The STEEL children had done a great work there that day. Athvor was sure of that. There was just a lot of death that went along with the victory. One could not think of all the death without thinking about how many families were now without fathers, sons, uncles, friends.
He tried to count the dead from where they stood; even a rough guestimate would be enough to tell others he came in contact with. The only problem was that he had no clue if Verlor had been killed. He figured he would be able to find that small information out pretty easily. All he had to do was ask a few of the locals. If they were followers of the STEEL children they would most likely be spreading the news of Verlor’s death as fast and the spoken word could travel. The opposite would also be true. If they were followers of Verlor, they would be overjoyed by the defeat of the STEEL children.
Athvor continued to look down at the hundreds of thousands of bodies. They were mounded up in places. There were huge scorch marks where he had fought side by side with his friend. The most unusual thing about the battlefield was the two giant craters in the center of the field. It was almost as if this battle was put to an end by two meteors flying through the atmosphere and landing on ground zero of this battle. The bodies stopped at the edges of these craters and the inside of each of them were covered in ash.
Athvor by
Robert T Gasperson is licensed under a
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Based on a work at
roberttgasperson.com.
