[01:42] 11 April, in Shiva, with Lephin
That night, war descended on Shiva. The intentions were cruel, and those who were saved, either by luck or good instincts, were few.
In the Sixth ring, a boy survived, thanks to his incredible sensitivity to the energy density, which was sky-high that night.
"Hey Lephin…Lephin!"
"UHHH!- I woke up, with my sister in front of me, feeling nauseous.
"Lephin, were you having a nightmare?" I shook my head.
"I need to get out and take some air. I'll come back in a few minutes"
"Okay…I'll wait for you here" She crawled back onto her bed, and I left the room.
My family was sleeping, but I really couldn't. I felt like the air was contaminated, breathing became difficult, and I felt like throwing up. So I took a few steps from my house and vomited next to the brushes. While I was at my lowest, the earth started shaking.
In Shiva, it's very rare to see something like this, and it was the first time I felt the earth below me moving. When I pulled my face out of the brushes, I saw the apocalypse.
High fires were illuminating the landscapes, the wall between the sixth and the seventh ring crumbling. When I looked around, many other houses were burning, and others were destroyed. (How didn't we hear a thing?)
In fact, there was no sound at all.
I couldn't even hear my own house falling behind me, nor the screams of my family, everything was silenced.
"This has to be a nightmare" Then I started to get even more scared.
I couldn't hear my own voice. I went running for help, ignoring that my family died behind me that night. The military gate was close to our house. When I arrived there, I realized what was happening:
We were getting attacked.
The fifth ring was already half-destroyed.
Many soldiers with unknown uniforms were killing our people. I am just a 15-year-old boy, I had to search for help, but the worst thing is that everything was happening in complete silence.
(I have to escape this hell. I don't want to die. I don't want to get imprisoned. I did nothing, why is this happening to me…)
The first idea that came to mind was to reach out to a friend of mine.
I tried ignoring all the devastation; the corpse lying down in the streets, the smell of blood, mixed with a strong smell, which was making me nauseous.
Many houses were missing, many of these I used to see since I was a child. Other people like me, were running for their lives, in every direction. I had a glimmer of hope when I saw the Shiva's military enter the sixth ring.
However I couldn't recognize the city, I was lost, every street was full of blood, and houses were destroyed. I felt many more earthquakes and even small seismic shocks.
I tried hiding in some houses, but the sixth ring was full of enemy soldiers. I remember their red and black uniforms, long and deadly swords. Some of them were on horseback, some were running, but the feeling of helplessness they gave me was the same.
Where was God when I was in trouble? The God of the Phoenix's cult, which my family has always praised. I was alone. I reached the river, it was red, or maybe It was my imagination. I felt like dreaming at that point, the soldiers were everywhere, and I couldn't even scream.
I ran and I ran until I fell, exhausted. The last thing I remember was an unnatural feeling of freezing. The only thing that received me at that moment was the hill, soft and warm. I felt pampered for a second.
"Screw the reason…they…they…will pay…I didn't need this…"
The lucky boy didn't notice that he fell into a very particular meadow.
He accepted his fate, which was to survive, even if he didn't know it.
The hill was covered with vines; thanks to its structure, many plants usually react to the energy flow.
The important detail is that Lephin was the main cause of the sudden growth of the vines, which completely covered his body and shielded him from being detected.