...Can't remember when was the last time I ate. As best as I could, all I had for that last time was some scrap bread found at the back alleys. Fell asleep, and woke up afterwards feeling as wreary as ever. Walked a couple miles north, still...nothing. Haven't seen a soul for weeks...or was it months?...
... ...the wind has gotten chilly of late. To make things worse, I haven't ate for a week for so, ain't seen nobody. Looking into my backpack, there ain't nothing left to relieve me of my nausea...
... the air smells really bad, bodies are everywhere. A battle probably took place days to a week or two ago. I have no clue where to head next...Seems like there are no survivals around, even if there were, they would have gone elsewhere... Scrambling my way out of the dead town, I happened to find myself some biscuits...
...the local temple had been desecrated with dried blood stained all over the walls, the statues broken, glass pieces, empty cartridges littered the ground. Found a first aid box...alas, nothing inside...
...the sun never seem to show itself in this country...darkness engulfed the earth, the smell of the dead lingers in every corner, hope was nowhere within sight...
...I have lost count of the number of days I have been wondering in this eternal darkness, my first battle at Onaotsne was already like a dream - so real, yet so unreal, like it had never happened. I could still remember the thundering of the enemy artillery pounding around us all. Our forces were so quickly decimated; retreating meant facing the guns of our own sergeants, staying in our holes was to slowly await our deaths, to advance was run head-on with enemy machineguns....I couldn't feel my legs...I couldn't breathe...there was no one...I feel sleepy...
...there was familiar looking house a few steps away. Inching slowly towards the door, and very slowly, tiredly, I pushed open the door. I couldn't describe what I was feeling - light, glad, relieved, I saw my family who were so happy to see me. For what it had seemed like years, a sense of warmth rushed through my eyes and my heart...................................
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