They All Fall Down
With the start of a new clan, there comes the fall of an old one. I finally wrote a small thing to close it off for myself. Feel free to ask any questions you have about it and what happened to the clan’s previous inhibitants (some are still alive!)
The Guardians felt it first, just before it happened. That familiar gut feeling, a sheer panic as they rushed to their Charges without reason.
The city Shivered as Zillah cornered the Matriarch.
And when Raseth came crashing down, Keil wrapped her arms around her Charge. She cried out his name as the ground pulled them in, cried out before the ceiling knocked the life out of her. Rajni couldn’t do anything but hold her limp body as they plunged into darkness – consumed by the very sands they had called their home. It was over before they knew it.
As Raseth came crashing down, Esha saw her husband crushed by a stone. When she had felt the shiver, her thought had been Vaan, it would always be Vaan. Now Khajil was gone, lying bloody and broken on the floor, and she just stood there – guilt consuming her until the sands took her too.
While Raseth came crashing down, the marketplace erupted into chaos. Some were fast enough to fly up and see the city get swallowed underneath their feet – were fast enough to see everything they loved disappear. And in the distance, Mena’s tower came tumbling down, only one small figure escaping from the dust and vanishing towards the horizon.
In that day, all they had worked so hard to achieve was wiped in an instant. There was nothing left – nothing to show that a thousand lives had just vanished with the whisper of one word.
There was only chunks of rock, mere ruins in the middle of the treacherous desert.
