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Our Hope Is Lost

from Aurora Divide by Danny Morris

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You hear the call from over your shoulder, "Fall back, they're too strong!".

Your party leader, and trusted friend, was always known to be rash, but he's proven to be incredibly resourceful in times of danger. He has pulled you out of so many situations you were mentally preparing to die for.

You heed the call, and you turn your body to sprint away. However you're not prepared for what you see.

Your heart drops from your chest as your eyes fall on the body of one of your fallen comrades. The sweet young Khriyan mage who you rescued from the mines just a few months back. The young lady who was so gifted in the ways of healing and peace, lying broken on the grass just a stone's throw away from you. A behemoth with a bloody club stands over her, grinning in satisfaction. He hits her just one more time just for sport. The sound is sickening.

"Run, archer!" You hear your party leader scream, but it sounds surreal. You spin again, and freeze as you see another behemoth swing one of those deadly clubs with blinding speed and accuracy. Your party leader tries desperately to parry with his broadsword, but there is no strength in the block, and the heavy handed blow crushes the blade viciously against his chest.

He falls.

He doesn't move.

You are the last one standing.

You scream out in defiance, and you reach into your pack for a Remedial Fern. If you can just make it to the Khriyan mage and revive her before her spirit is gone for good...

Suddenly, your sight blackens as you feel something sharp jolt between your shoulder blades. Your breath becomes hard to grasp and you feel yourself falling to one knee, leaning heavily on your crossbow.

Another jolt hits your back. Then another.

Through the red haze, you manage to see the behemoth slowly saunter towards you. You manage to catch him congratulating a hidden archer on a well aimed shot, and you realize the source of the burning pain in your back is a poisoned arrow.

You can barely lift yourself from the ground; your body is stiffening from the paralytic poison. You fall to your chest, your breath coming in ragged intervals. You can no longer move your arms.

It is inevitable, you have lost. You say a short prayer to Mviah, Goddess of the Hunt, and ask for a swift, clean death.

The behemoth, with his cruel blunt club, does not grant your wish.

Game Over.

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from Aurora Divide, released November 7, 2009

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Danny Morris Bellevue, Washington

Sometimes I roll my face on the keyboard while I'm in Fruity Loops, and if I get lucky, pretty sounds come out of my computer :o

No but seriously, hi :3 My name is Danny, and I'm a guy that writes music that hails from Washington. I primarily write Videogame/Film Score , but I dabble in electric music and experiment in other genres frequently. ... more

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