Screams filled my head as footsteps echoed from around me, my surroundings were a blur as I attempted to focus on any minor details that would help clear my vision. My limbs were stiff as if paralyzed and yet the space cleared after a moment to reveal a dream-like reality that felt hyper-realistic.
I rushed forward in a frenzy and dropped to my knees before the bloodied body as it lay on the ground in a tattered mess, the young girl stared lifelessly at me as she took her final breath. Her chest was ripped to shreds with blood escaping the wounds at an alarming rate, there was no saving her as death claimed her all too soon. She reached up as if to touch my cheek as I held her head in my lap and cried for the loss of one of our own.
“Titus,” she breathed before her head slumped to the s
