Sentries of a Dead Earth

from Endless Landscapes of Grim Carnage by Huntress of Stars

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I had heard tell of such a place,
tales spun by ancient ones of those entrusted with legends of times before.
Stories I believed to be but myth,
for all know that the length of this barren land,
once rich with temples built to revere wisdom and sanctuaries guarding our antiquity,
was put to flame by the sun cult, that crimson horde

And, yet, then a light in the cavern’s depths illuminated carvings in the stone walls.
I studied them, in silent and reverent awe at the chronicle, recorded therein:

The horde, who worship the Eye Aflame, despoiled the water, earth, and sky, while but a few retreated here and swore an oath to keep alive old ways.

Then, rousing me from my wonderment,
shadows long upon the walls, cast by robed figures.
My dread abated as they spoke in a single, ethereal voice,
“fear not, seeker, harm shall not befall you.
For we are the sentries of this hallowed sanctuary.
The dreams of a world reborn manifest before you.
We saw our comrades burned upon sacrificial pyres,
fed with the amassed wisdom of every generation.
For the most sacred parchment or venerated artifact,
even the flesh of their kin,
is merely kindling for their hate."

And my eyes beheld their relics-
rarest tomes, held with a parent's tenderness.
Runic symbols covering fragile pages, alien to my faded eyes.
Yet my hosts read aloud the words,
divine in their sagacity and elegant in their configuration,
in this shrine to a world, deceased.

Would that I could beg their forgiveness.

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from Endless Landscapes of Grim Carnage, released September 30, 2021

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