“Oh no, oh no, Goddess please no”, Amelia begs desperately as she flashes to Grace’s side and collapses onto her hands and knees beside her. She anxiously hovers over the injured woman and tears automatically flow down her cheeks.
Blood, oh goddess, so much blood!
All at once, all training she has ever had evaporated from her mind and all she can see is the blood. With shaky hands, she hovers them over Grace’s body, not even knowing where to place them- too anxious to rationally think about the next course of action, the picture of a bloody Grace overlapping with the scenes of her family’s bloody corpses. The two merge and she is stuck in an endless loop of despair.
The battling warriors had by now all realized what had happened and stopped fighting. No one had predicted this outcome. H
