The kiss is like an intimate express, transiting along the skin with a frosty sensation. Its main body holds the beauty, an obscure brilliance whispering incomprehensibly as I lay beneath the dawning gold, endeavoring to devour the grey of a new day. 

From above, a chorus succumbs to the mingled low song that is the wind. The birds soar overhead, a flock appearing black and blue, black and white, integrated into the melody so sweet and sentimental from the view of above, a forest of green stretching out in all four expanses. The wilderness calls, and my eyes open to its greenery, not to admire but to stare stunned in confusion and horror. "Where am I, where is my destination, my home?" 

My hand balls into fists, enclosing the bundle of grass and wet soil jammed beneath my body. Exhaustion operates the sluggish movement as I roll over to face the blue sky, a feeling of unmistakable pain gushing like the blood coursing through my body, beguiling me to scream. I do not. "I don't remember what's become of my home, my friends, my house, my parents." They are like the firey smog that laid claim to the wooden structures, creaking and crackling as they succumb to shrieking collapse. 

"Are they gone?" The question receives no answer, yet in the silence that ensues, I feel the streaking of tears coasting along my face, descending down onto the green grass that surrounds me. My body quivers in the harsh reality of my situation, made aware that the life I once known, it had once experienced, had come to an unfortunate end. That understanding enforces the resonating beat of my heart joined by the nauseous wrench that is so intense, so severe that as I heave my body from the ground, it is to prevent the vomit from drenching it. 

In my mind, a cryptic tapestry depicts the twisted horror, the destructive force issued by the dark metallic gauntlets encrusting the hand of a cloaked finger, a billowing darkness akin to the smoke rising from the acrid burning houses, twisting abnormally behind him. "My name is Ill Omen," he speaks, "and I have come to claim your throne."