Invictus Valley
2. Doomsday
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Destroying everything in its path, it came like a huge beast, a green monster, rushing upon them, foaming, hissing, in a cloud of spray. Then the water fell upon the villages, sweeping away homes, people, fields and trees. The flood swept the valley clean as with a broom. ― Richard Erdoes
Some Years Later,
In the Middle of the Night
She can’t see. She can’t hear.
Murky darkness blurs her vision. Angry, rushing water fills her ears.
She can’t move. She can’t speak.
Rapid whirlpools throw her against rocks,
cutting into her skin and releasing her blood into the waves.
The water fills her throat, cutting off any chance of grasping for a last breath,
before her head is thrashed against something hard.
She is only sixteen.
She has a whole life left to live.
She can’t think straight, but she knows one thing is certain.
Ivory Smyth knows she’s going to die.
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