Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-30319843-20170917082633/@comment-32659957-20171002014537

Days Earlier

It was getting late. Rausten would get his new body tomorrow, but I doubt he would like it; I put some other bits of code, some surprises that might slow him down. It would probably give me time to get to the way out.

The way out was a portal. Rausten mentioned it while he was giving me directions on how to build his body properly. It was just a ways away, stuck onto a hill. I saw the hill, once: the day when Nat and I started building the machine. Last time, there as no portal, but I knew where to go.

I was walking through a village, preparing myself for Rausten's arrival. I was still shaken up by Rausten's trick, as he pretended to be one of my best friends.

The village was all ashes, burned down by his armies because he deemed the villagers a threat to his plans.

I stopped in front of the library. I remember carrying a mother's child here, hefted onto my shoulders as he ruffled up my hair. I sighed; they didn't deserve this.

I was about to turn away when I saw a deep, red glow radiating from the dirt. I walked over to it. The source of the glow seemed to come from under a broken desk, buried under some dirt. I pushed the desk aside. It landed with a crash, breaking apart. I used one of the boards lying from the surrounding rubble to start digging into the soil.

It was a red diamond. With it, a note.

"If all seems lost, find the Lost One."

That was me. I took the diamond into my hands, feeling its energy course through me like an adrenaline rush. I looked around, my heightened senses picking up every shred of wood, broken glass, and death. I would avenge these people. I looked up to the sky, as the last bits of sun sank below a hill.

I had a new plan.