As soon as Colonel Vulnar finished readying the sword... a shadow appeared behind him.
Time stopped in an instant, my heartbeat quickened, and it was the only thing I could hear.
The shadow was a soldier wearing the flag of the North Holar. He was a high-ranking soldier, a lieutenant colonel. Blood was oozing from his eyes, his nose, his ears, even from the gaps in his skin... from everywhere. His eyes were so red that I couldn't make out the pupils.
With difficulty, this shadow put the pistol he was holding against the Colonel's back. When all sound had disappeared, when the world had stopped spinning... the sound of a shot echoed across the field.
The lieutenant colonel behind the colonel collapsed to the ground, the pistol in his hand falling down the hill he was standing on and landing in front of me. The colonel's eyes widened, and blood oozed from his mouth as he vomited blood.
