Morning Diamond- a look inside


Clad looked down on his father’s village and for the first time in his life felt the freezing hand of bitter loss.    
The smoke they had seen rising above the hills were not the friendly cooking fires he’d expected, but the remains of a massive fire.  Smoldering piles of ash was all that remained of the grass homes.  Bodies of family and friends lay scattered motionless across the blackened earth.  After several moments of staring blindly at the remains, Clad needed answers to the questions racing through his mind.
“Take her!”  He commanded and encouraged Arianna into Mitch’s waiting arms.  “Please?”  Mitch nodded and Clad knew his friend would care for Arianna while he searched the village.  
Clad rushed down the hill and into the burnt remains, leaving Arianna and his men staring after him.  Frantically he searched for survivors, but he soon realized he sought in vain.  With despair waging a war with his emotions he forced himself to begin searching the dead for those he loved the most.  
He neared a pile of ash and his chest began to burn with a pain so intense he gasped for air.  He couldn’t bear to look, yet couldn’t force his eyes away from the familiar figure lying in front of a burnt hut.  The man lay lifeless, his arm stretched out to the burnt shack before him.  Clad fought against the tears, but they still sprung.  He could well imagine the scene in front of him.  Images played in his mind as though he had been here to witness it.  
He pictured the man running across the village, attempting to reach the woman and infant inside.  Their tortured screams echoed in the silence as Clad imagined the man’s desperation to remove the inhabitants from the burning walls.  Several arrows to the back put an end to the man’s act of heroism.  He had fallen only inches from his home.  Clad looked at the blackened hand that lay in the burnt cinders.  


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