Time stood still in front of me.
My face contorted as I struggled to process what I was seeing. Every beat of my heart was loud inside my chest. Despite the breeze of from the sea, I was dotted with sweat. Is it really him? I wondered, forcing my frozen legs to take a step forward.
The smell of burning in the air was slowly dissipating as the nasty stench was carried by the wind. In the absence of chaos, stood an ear - splitting silence. Behind me, Magat and Lyana were like statues, their tongues tied and their muscles unmoving.
The moment dragged on and then without warning, it snapped. The flow of time returned to normalcy. All of a sudden, I could hear everything at once. The flapping of the birds' wings flying in the air. The lapping of the water against the shore. The sound of o
