Archive for July 3rd, 2006
Burning
July 3rd, 2006 Posted 10:09 pm
Every villager helped to move the town. As soon as houses were cleaned out of belongings, they were washed with oil and marked off on their list allowing the families to move on to the mountains. They made sure everything was evacuated, and little by little started building a hidden town in the mountains miles away from any civilization. By the time summer came with very little water, the town was re-established far away from it’s past location. The last family left made sure the oil was wet and lit the town. There were no regrets that evening about the choice to burn the town.
The queen’s army could see the smoke from a distance of five days away. General Sarah hated to file defeat but there was nothing else to describe it. They went full speed ahead and by the time they reached the town, it had been burned to the ground. Not a single thing was left except for the burning mud and hay. The only thing in sight besides the burning town was the mountains in the distance, which is where Sarah knew her army had to head, because they were there, somewhere.
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