Run Away 🔹🔷🔹 Splinterlands Runi Tale I

Run run run run.
It's the only thing I can think clearly at this moment, I still hear the screams and the smell of blood is impregnated in my clothes, tears do not let me see clearly, but still I run, leaving everything behind.

I can't do anything, everything is lost, there is no one to save me, I must hide and wait for my parents to come for me, I know they will come for me... my head only repeats over and over again that scene, how from laughter and the smell of freshly baked bread we go to screams and blood everywhere I look.
Three hours earlier
"You know my father won't be happy about this" commented Azura ( my younger sister).
"I know Azura, but he won't notice, we can get to the edge of the valley, see what's beyond and come back without any problem, don't make so much drama".
The branches creak breaking under the weight of my feet, but the beating of my heart is the only thing that my ears can capture, today after so many years I dare to go to the edge of the calm valley of zuftwaer, where I have spent all my childhood in external calm but with an eternal restlessness.
What will be on the other side? I always wondered, what wonders for that uncertain world, and in spite of always being warned not to reach these limits, something moves me here without ceasing, I must find out what my dreams have seen, to see if it is real.

"We've arrived, you stay here, I'll be back in exactly three minutes".
"Remember it's three minutes it stresses me out and more is this so dark" Azura roars.

I keep walking, the euphoria runs, the adrenaline has my senses to a thousand, the colors, the smell everything feels shocking. I can see what looks like a lake, I hear the water running and tranquility springs like a volcano inside me.
I am being bewitched by what my eyes capture, the bright green is in an almost black tone by the darkness of the night, only the light that the moon can provide is contemplated, a full moon, which does not make this look less magical, the branches, the animals around me all as if it were a mirage ... and reached the lake that I dreamed so many times and I lean, and catch my reflection, I can not help but smile with fullness I managed to get here and see a small piece of that world alien to me.
I sit down on the shore and close my eyes, enjoying this beautiful moment...
"Magic itself" I whisper softly and let myself fall into the dry branches.
Little by little my consciousness fades away and I fall down tucked in the darkness of this place, with the best sensation of my life...

• Screams, swords clashing, blood ?
  I wake up shaken, sweating and with a scream stuck in my throat, damn how much I slept...you can still see the moon at the top of the sky and feel the cold of the night.
  I run quickly to where I left little Azura...I can't find her if she left without me I'll be in big trouble.
  "Azura! I scream Azura be there ?"
  I feel nothing but the thud of my body falling to the floor, fuck what I was missing I turn around upset to see what made me collapse and I can't hold back the tears...Azura, she's around a pool of blood curled up hugging her chest.
  Nononono she is not Azura, Azura would be screaming at me for making her wait longer than scheduled, she would be hysterical and blackmailing me to tell my father.
  I kneel down and as I turn her over I can't hold back the scream that wells up from my being, my little Azura with a precise cut in her throat and cold eyes staring into nothingness receives me, I tuck her into my chest desperate to wake up from this nightmare.
  This can't be real, who hurt you Azura I'm so sorry.
  I don't know how long I lie there, hugging the cold body crying and reaping the hatred my being was unaware of possessing, I am only aware of my surroundings as I hear more screams, people and horses galloping.
  I quickly pick up my sister's body and head for home, I can't let this happen to my parents, this can't happen in the valley we have been at peace for millennia.
  I pray to all the gods that this is not what my being hails it to be, and everything collapses...piece by piece everything in me falls as I see my little house torn to shreds, in living, fierce flames engulfing what was once my home...I do not control my feet and run towards it, engulfed in more screams heard nearby, the smell of blood hits me hard the flames sting my skin.

"Dad mom! I scream in desperation daddy !"
Nonono by the gods this isn't happening.
"Julian? Julian! "
I manage to hear in the distance
"Dad!? "
"This way Julian"
I manage to walk through the rubble and see two bodies and my soul goes to my feet, no matter how much the flames tuck me in I feel cold, sweat runs down my back and I tremble as I leave Azura's body still on my side and lift the heavy pieces of wood.
The air is getting thinner and thinner, but I refuse to leave, to give in to the call of my mother, who shrieks and asks me to run in a muffled voice, I ignore her and continue in my work moderating my breathing.
"Julian you must take the junkers and run, go and find the Riftwatchers camp, they will help you..... tell them you are son of Arnarius, they will help you, but you must go the legion of chaos is near...you cannot let them find you my son, you have a gift, one that if you know how to handle it will bring peace.
Don't...stray from the path...Julian."

"Mom! No mom! Don't go I almost took you out mother don't go don't leave me alone, I don't know where to go!"
But it was too late, she gave me the same look as Azura, cold and distant, empty.
And I couldn't take it anymore I collapsed next to her, hugging what was left of my parents, hugging my sister's flimsy body and together with them I decided to end the pain, I am nothing without them, why fight against something so powerful.
I can't go on, I felt my body shut down and my soul was detached from it, or so I thought... I jumped and coughed loudly, did I just revive? I could swear I died, I felt my heart stop and my breathing stopped, I was just reborn, my body took more strength and surprisingly enough I breathe easily around these flames.

I must fight my parents would not forgive me if I let innocents die...I can't give up, not when they were thinking of me.... with little strength I managed to enter the vault, hidden and guarded with dark magic to take the junkers and the ebony sword, family heirloom...I can't avoid shedding tears when I remember those stories my father told me in our afternoons... They will never come back to me, now I am alone.
And I must face it as soon as possible.

I take everything and run without looking back, I can't allow myself to bend my character at the sight of their bodies, I must reach the Riftwatchers' camp, I must fulfill my mother's last words.
And I run without stopping...not knowing what I will find.