I ran into the clearing knowing, but hoping that the blood in the air wasn't from the children that was left in the slave encampment, but rather the battle that was taking place a mile away from here. I know I am being delusional though, the proverbial river of blood that was flowing down the hill we were climbing was enough to tell me that. But even knowing what I was about to see could never prepare me for the sight that was in front of me.
The bodies of hundreds of children were laid out in rows and piles in front of me each body sustaining seemingly worse injuries than the last one with a girl, no older than three years old with brown hair and brown eyes, stared back at me half of her face missing and completely gutted, leaving her insides hollow as her intestines stretched over to the boy next to her who looked to have been forced to eat her stomach and died from choking on it.
Cold dread washes through my body as I realized that K.K. could be amongst the hundreds in front of me and I start searching for her sunny blond hair but I couldn't see her anywhere.
“She’s not here.” I heard Seph say with a sigh of relief. “They were most likely killing off unwanted access when the field army attacked. So she would …show more content…
I turn to see Second on the other side of me. “I have called my father, he said to leave them so that when he arrives with the intergalactic media in an hour they can get the “truth about what is happening here.”” Seconds shoulders began shaking shortly after she began speaking again. Seph hugged her close to him as she began crying in earnest. “Why? Why do this? It’s not like they asked to be killed. Why didn't I figure that they would kill the children after we attacked the main village? It’s the first rule of hostage taking! If you can't win the battle and can’t transport the hostages you kill all of the hostages so that they can't tell the other side anything they found out from being in your
The bodies of hundreds of children were laid out in rows and piles in front of me each body sustaining seemingly worse injuries than the last one with a girl, no older than three years old with brown hair and brown eyes, stared back at me half of her face missing and completely gutted, leaving her insides hollow as her intestines stretched over to the boy next to her who looked to have been forced to eat her stomach and died from choking on it.
Cold dread washes through my body as I realized that K.K. could be amongst the hundreds in front of me and I start searching for her sunny blond hair but I couldn't see her anywhere.
“She’s not here.” I heard Seph say with a sigh of relief. “They were most likely killing off unwanted access when the field army attacked. So she would …show more content…
I turn to see Second on the other side of me. “I have called my father, he said to leave them so that when he arrives with the intergalactic media in an hour they can get the “truth about what is happening here.”” Seconds shoulders began shaking shortly after she began speaking again. Seph hugged her close to him as she began crying in earnest. “Why? Why do this? It’s not like they asked to be killed. Why didn't I figure that they would kill the children after we attacked the main village? It’s the first rule of hostage taking! If you can't win the battle and can’t transport the hostages you kill all of the hostages so that they can't tell the other side anything they found out from being in your