My feet moved on their own. My spiritual feet, an incorporeal fetter of myself adrift in dream tide.
BGM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQGUe89XnLYFor however far I rushed the vacuum, my perception enlightens upon an image of bursting bombs and crackling fire. I see a battlefield before me, one that blinked with every clash of two metal woven melees.
[WOLDORIAN] "Bloodred blackguard! Begone afore my steel!"
[SAMURAI] "FOR THE EMPEROOOOR!"
A knight of Woldoria. A man of the Heer, clad in gothic plating. His plume danced behind his helmet as he raked his Halberd against the Yari of a Retainer.
I remember this fight. I remember it all too well. This was the skirmish that took place outside Zahnlauf. Zahnlauf, the town I lived near. The first battle between the Heer and the Samurai, all those years back then... when the Trinity came to hold the town after purifying it, and never giving back the land they annexed. Not even an inch.
The Heer fought hard, but they could never take it back from the Samurai.
[WOLDORIAN] "I'M JUST DEFENDING MY HOMELAND!"
[SAMURAI] "YOU WORSHIP FALSE IDOLS. YOUR CULTURE IS WARLIKE. YOU ARE A BARBARIAN."
Huh...?
[WOLDORIAN] "YOU ARE AN... AGGRESSOR!"
[SAMURAI] "I AM A WARRIOR OF THE LIGHT. THIS WORLD CANNOT LAST WITHOUT THE LIGHT!"
These... these were not words coming from their mouth. I was...
I gasped. The Terror. This was the Terror. The Ginnungagap, it was trying to...
But... but... I...
[WOLDORIAN] "UGNNH!"
The Knight was knocked down. I remember this moment well when it transpired close to the woods. I was younger back then. I was curious. I watched it all unfold...
[WOLDORIAN] "...H-HELP!"
The Knight stretched his hand out to me when he saw me, and I shied back.
I remember when this happened all those years back then. The knight was killed, the Samurai thrust his Yari through his back and mercilessly put him down. I watched it. I felt blood splash on my cheeks. I panicked and fell invisible before the Samurai could spot me, and then I remember running... I ran... like a coward, when even back then I could have helped.
And now I was experiencing it all over again. That Knight was reaching his hand out to me. But this time, the Samurai was slow in being poised to stab him like... like he did in reality...
[SAMURAI] "What if you helped?"
