Chal

“No! I couldn’t… stop her… again…” Chal could barely hear the girl as she cried in frustration. His senses faded, and he passed to a realm of spirits. It was grey fog. Lights beamed in and out of sight. They flickered as they danced. He could see his own light around him. Where was his wife? His son? They were near. But then there was a violent red, and a return....

Chal spit ash and poison. Swarms of speckled dots of abyss rained on him from above and scorched him in dark. “This is it, my end,” he thought. He was a knight of Lostria returning home, to his wife, to his son. Chal saw the city burn in pillars of churning shadows, its citizens turned to husks all around him. Every step he took closer to his home made the painful shadow winds more intense....