Uli, what's your worst memory?
“My worst memory… Ah.. I don’t really want to talk too much about it- brace yourselves.. After the sudden evacuation as the calamity erupted from the castle, I followed the soldiers lead as well as many of the castle town refugees to the Akala citadel…”
“we were able to get most in safely despite the corrupted guardians at our heels, the guards were giving it their all… So, many took a moment to breathe, some, still grieving, got to work helping reinforce the doors..”
“The sound of their metallic claws scratching relentlessly, either trying to dig at the door, or perhaps climb the outer walls of the citadel.”
“I could hear the cannons from above.. Then, a sickening sound as their explosive beams began to strike the exterior walls… despite its fortification.. and our efforts to get all of the refugees to a safer space, the wall collapsed— I only remember the screams, blind scrambling, nearly being trampled— then- below us, the stairway collapsed, the ceiling collapsed almost immediately after…”
“It took a while for me to come to after that… I found myself pinned to the ground by my legs in a dark cramped space.. probably what was left of one of the halls with one slit defense window- there were already vines growing in the cracks, and moss on my hands… i must have been out for weeks… perhaps even months… I would ultimately be trapped in there for nearly thirty years with nothing but that slit window, the sound of dripping water from somewhere I couldn’t see, and the smell of what was once death that evolved into stagnant rotting malice.”
“I have many bad memories, regrets from the past.. I don’t know if this is the worst because it is the most recent… or if it truly was the most impactful event I’ve experienced..”
