Theed, Naboo
Tears engulfed a young woman's eyelids as she laid focus poignantly upon her modest home -- or merely its remains. Her valiant and silent gaze soon depleted into short glances, separated by surrenders of all nonchalance...violent sobs of anguish closely followed. Despite the mixture of sweat and saturation rolling brashly down her scarlet cheeks and into quivering lips, a subtle courage embraced her womb to where her hand clutched that of another...perpetually in stasis, pale of tone.
A male and female, both rooting tresses of gold and skin of porcelain, lay to rest in coffins of ash under the impression of shattered stone. Arms intrepidly strung between each other with only eternal love to serve as their savior, the young newlyweds entered demise hand-in-hand with simply lost hopes and dreams representing the demonstrations such love could have exhibited.
All futures, aspirations, loves, and attractions...all void in a second's burst; ultimately tainting a future that could have been existent, but wasn’t -- infinitely undone.
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Xylon skulked amid eradicated dwellings and piled corpses with a stricken composure seeming to pain him with each blink of either eye. Satchels of agony dominated the heart of several whom innocently gaped at his presence; most yelped pleas for mercy and wishes of redemption according to a bureaucracy thought to have abandoned their suffering.
Empathy meant nothing; the victims tasted auxiliary efforts all too often...the pain continued to linger.
"H-Help...m-my mom...she w-won't wake up!"
"I-I can't find my son and daughter...please, they didn't d-d-d-d...I kn-now it.
Every face and murmur clung to Ranthra to where reality and nightmare no longer endured boundaries or moral. His cheeks virtually began to swell in the wake of redundancy observed in every sullen gesture. Past exploits haunted him torrentially, and the eyes of those he had once daunted incorporated into these severely distressed statures now planted before him.
A past once buried in denial only to be revealed once again....