[Gather round, children, literal or otherwise, for Kesara has a tale to tell. What a tale it is. She's even telling it while sitting by a fireplace. Her eyes gleam in the flickering darkness as she begins, in a low-pitched, expert voice.]
It was that terrible first night after the creatures took on forms we knew. A day of alarm and a night of horrors. I'd wandered all day through the snowfall, pushing ahead of the shadow that pursued me. A mockery with my teacher's face. Oh, how I loathed it! But weaponless, weak from hunger, what could I do but hope the snow would hide my tracks? All day I defied it, picking my careful path, but night was coming. Exhaustion crept up. Soon, I knew, I will be overcome.
Just as the black worm of despair was gnawing through my guts, I spotted it - shelter, at last! A light in the distance. Though I made for it for all haste, the creature sensed my hope. Fast on my heels, it set upon me, and imagine my terror when I saw what awaited at salvation's door! For it had half a dozen fellows, lurking in wait, each one more hideous than the last. In my great need I called, help, help! thinking no man could truly be so brave as to come to my aid.
And yet, the door opened! Out came two brave men! First Kain, grim in his helmet, set to swift action; then Zell, all ablaze with righteous fury! Defying death and danger, they opened the door to my desperate flight. Though I stumbled, Kain came to my side, raising me up with his courage, while Zell faced the fiends all by his lonesome. Stop, they both cried, and stop the creatures did! A brief respite, before their vile claws were again upon us, but that moment's pause was all my rescuers needed. Through the snowfall, swift as eagles and bold and able as cavaliers, they bore me up and brought me to safety, so that I live to tell this tale today. Here only we can celebrate their courage, but surely their fine chests would not have shamed the Victoria Cross!
[Finished, she sits back, quite pleased with her own riveting delivery, giving the camera a nod of satisfaction.]
And no matter what different things you might have dreamed or remembered, that's exactly how it happened.
It was that terrible first night after the creatures took on forms we knew. A day of alarm and a night of horrors. I'd wandered all day through the snowfall, pushing ahead of the shadow that pursued me. A mockery with my teacher's face. Oh, how I loathed it! But weaponless, weak from hunger, what could I do but hope the snow would hide my tracks? All day I defied it, picking my careful path, but night was coming. Exhaustion crept up. Soon, I knew, I will be overcome.
Just as the black worm of despair was gnawing through my guts, I spotted it - shelter, at last! A light in the distance. Though I made for it for all haste, the creature sensed my hope. Fast on my heels, it set upon me, and imagine my terror when I saw what awaited at salvation's door! For it had half a dozen fellows, lurking in wait, each one more hideous than the last. In my great need I called, help, help! thinking no man could truly be so brave as to come to my aid.
And yet, the door opened! Out came two brave men! First Kain, grim in his helmet, set to swift action; then Zell, all ablaze with righteous fury! Defying death and danger, they opened the door to my desperate flight. Though I stumbled, Kain came to my side, raising me up with his courage, while Zell faced the fiends all by his lonesome. Stop, they both cried, and stop the creatures did! A brief respite, before their vile claws were again upon us, but that moment's pause was all my rescuers needed. Through the snowfall, swift as eagles and bold and able as cavaliers, they bore me up and brought me to safety, so that I live to tell this tale today. Here only we can celebrate their courage, but surely their fine chests would not have shamed the Victoria Cross!
[Finished, she sits back, quite pleased with her own riveting delivery, giving the camera a nod of satisfaction.]
And no matter what different things you might have dreamed or remembered, that's exactly how it happened.
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