Spires and Swords to Pierce the Sky

from Endless Landscapes of Grim Carnage by Huntress of Stars

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As I again walked the wastes, my enemy in the sky punished me
for daring to hide from her view,
pouring her fire on my newly healed flesh.
And yet I mocked her vain attempt to dissuade me,
for now I had purpose:
to bring the knowledge of the sentries to the survivors,
that we may rise.

The first settlement I found was full of ill and diffident wretches,
shutting their doors and averting their eyes as I approached.
But I mounted a dais and bid them gather round,
and spoke to them the words they’d ever longed to hear:

“I was like you, my friends, but a brief time before.
Scared and without hope, cowering from the sun.
But every myth that you were spun as a child? Each was true!
We are the inheritors of a great and noble world!”
To the gathered crowd I told tale of machines and ideas,
relating the wisdom guarded by the sentries.
“Stand,” I said. “Take up the mantle!
For our forebears reigned o’er an empire,
with spires and swords to pierce the sky itself!
To create or destroy at whim like churlish gods!
And not all was lost when their world was put to flame!”

Enthralled, these survivors cast away what little they had
and followed on my path, as we sought converts for our cause.
In settlement after settlement, we preached our sacred words,
and our coterie grew to multitude.

And we stalked the wastelands, like a sea of locusts,
gathering all to our cause,
finding allies among the meek and cowed,
so fervent were we that we could barely feel
the fearful sun crying.
Intoxicated on our piety, we heeded not her admonitions,
even as her crimson army mobilized to intercept us,
brandishing their vermeil blades,
fearsome and brutally merciless.

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

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