Dreaming in Infrared

[Obsidian]

Deliverance...

The wind song whispered a warning, telling me to beware of the quiet shadowed woman and of the sadness I would share. We sat for sometime together in silence never speaking in words... of all her thoughts she spoke with her eyes and I listened remembering all I heard. The words she spoke were of forgotten lives and of all knowledge gained, the memories I had and didn't know why. With a smile she explained I should have listened to the wind's cold warning and walked the other way I touched her soul... I fell into a kind of trance... The woman spoke:

"Flying high through the night
She will hide your fate
As she takes your soul from under
And the blinding light of the castle fades"

"Who is she? Why?" I replied speaking my thoughts out loud "There is no escape. It's the ending of your precious life old woman if I don't get a straight answer! Stop speaking in rhymes!"

"The light will not shine
For you'll die tonight at her shrine
And black is the last thing you'll see"

I unsheathed the ancient Salamanca, the only thing I have as legacy of my father to the son he never had, "A victim the beast shall obtain!", the sharp blade cut through the "profet" with ease of a laser beam. She didn't realize she was dead...

"Over and over
Dreams of dying fill your head
It's the sign of the cross
That you'll find ahead..."

Moments later, I launch. I fly the Titan. Contact. Bounty Hunters. Bogies engaging me with all their petty rage. Light tracers follow me farther into the depths of Unknown, the blackness surrounding the border of hope. I plead for the signs of a second chance in hopes it will stifle the fear of the dying remains and a world gone insane. We are near the end. I plot in a course that will lead us through darkness. We enter the void with our eyes straight ahead, the Force all around us, we feel the twisted contusions of hatred will finally reveal whose days are numbered. The Unknown... The Nomads... The Ancients...


Artizar "Artemis" Santiago, Corsair Titan pilot, Amazones of the Night; [GAU]

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