Step. Step.
Slowly their legs slowed down as they approached the center of the woods.
They'd been especially skeptical about entering due to its history of abducting humans.
Their leader, however, a gaunt man with dark brown dreadlocked tresses, had acted as the morale booster of the group and led them into the heart of this disaster.
He, after all, was one of the distinguished men of Afkon,
And was strong enough to have earned himself such a position.
He stood in front of everyone and was the first one to stop in his tracks as he laid eyes on the numerous craters that bit into the ground,
And the one at the center that served as a great mother to the ones surrounding it.
Bodies of people lay sprawled around the area.
And at the center of the cataclysmic destruction was a withered body, one as large as a house.
The man, Shade, stared at this war-torn environment with a pained frown on his face.
