(Just in case any of you want to read it, I won’t be positing a lot of my writings on here though)
I write this; knowing these sentences to be my last words. Why must we die!? Especially the mayor, the poor soul of a Capra-Born. He tried; we all know he tried. He tried to prevent us from the danger of Konstance.
They are using a battering ram, now attempting to get our village’s gates open. Half of our Tahaka villagemen begin attempting resistance of the battering ram’s force; pressing their weight against the doors with every swing, hoping the gates will last long enough to grant us the time we need for the now fleeting chances of survival. The rest of the men stand nearby, holding every possible weapon ready, faces inexpressible, and eyes full of the flame that once engulfed Konstance. I was once his cousin, until he earned an erasing from the village’s list of inhabitants. I looked up to him. Now we must all die.
They surround us, banging war drums and releasing screeches. There no longer waits even a single gap- no opportunity to escape.
With a war cry, they will inevitably shatter the gates to splinters. Then both the purely Capra-Born village, and the Griffins with the unknown history that t’was stolen from them so long ago now, will race towards each other, both with the severe instinct and intent to kill, and both with battle cries howling from deep within their beings.
Meanwhile most of our our woman and children have run into far into the wood; (supposedly led by our brave Raueben) where a supposed portal awaits them- or so we hope. I, Sparrow Cardillion, however, have both the curse and the blessing to carry the entire village’s last thoughts, notes, recordings, and grand message to the Tree.
Once I lay it to rest it there, it could lay there for years, decades, or centuries even.
I carry our last farewells.
Once I am finished there, I will hurry back so no one may suspect me of being that person- or else I would be tortured into sharing these letter’s location. So I must join the men to be killed. After all, that *thing* should remember me, sooner or later, and he knows I would rather face danger than start a new one. He also knows no one can stop me from what I want. He will be at the front middle of his army, where he can scan the slaughtering of our village without being threatened. Once he realizes the woman and all the children under thirteen have disappeared, he will think of the older boys, and then remember me.
I am a mile away from the village, stopping to rest upon the cliff below the village Tree. Behind it lies a miniature box formed by the tree’s thinnest yet strongest roots, so that even when the tree is cut down, the box will remain with these letters still inside it.
Now I wish to write my last farewell, even as the gate now shatters, broken. If you are still alive, dear Lilli-Akrocan; dearest friend. Why did you disappear? Did Konstance kidnap you? To get revenge for your aunt, for whom you are namesake? So he could let his story become mine?
The horrific screams- they start to rise along with smoke. The dreaded ‘man of flame’ has arrived with his enslaved Griffin army. I can no longer wait to catch my breath, for it must soon cease anyway. If you are still alive; and if you ever read this, leave the rubble at once. Never return, not even through your mind’s eye. The place shall soon be a skeleton of what it once was, and of what could have been. Flee and forget the remains. Erase it from all maps. Let us be forgotten, lest other rebels be discouraged. Forget my darkness and I. Please.
Farewell.
Here the mind’s pen of Sparrow Cardillion shall cease.