Day 018: Sorting
It only took Athvor a moment to get his priorities strait. He joined Eeno in the cleanup effort. It was not right leaving all these bodies to decompose for all to see. Not only would it smell but it would cause the land to die with disease.
Together they sorted through the bodies. They stacked all the evil creatures into several piles, lighting them on fire when they felt they could not stack them any higher. There seemed to be no end to these creatures. Whenever they thought they had found them all a new set of bodies would appear out of nowhere. There must have been over one hundred thousand total.
As they sorted through they did find a great number of STEEL children. There were several times that Athvor would recognize them and shed a tear. He created a burial plot on the edge of the battlefield next to a green patch of forest where everything had not died. A small stream ran through the area. It would have been beautiful if it had not been for all the destruction next to it.
He buried the STEEL children one by one, memorializing them the same way he memorialized Junis. If he knew their name he would write it in the hardened stone top. If he didn’t know the STEEL child, he still wrote “Blessed Child of STEEL” on the stone.
Athvor by
Robert T Gasperson is licensed under a
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