Witch's Marsh Ascend

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Screams. Muffled. Thunder roared. His ears were stung and slaughtered with the night. His nose could hardly track through. There were so many scents; deer, toad, swamp, death. Blood. His mouth opened to a part, the winds so strong he could hardly keep himself anchored down. Yet, like iron, he planted himself deeper, farther down the path he followed, sometimes lead astray by strange scents that he could not keep track of. There, he continued his follow through the waters and through the muck. It had not been his first time in such a place; the wetlands were a memory that one would not forget. He would not leave.

The fiery gaze of his eyes were blinded by rain. A deep growl emitted from his throat as frustration boiled in his chest. The weather was harsh. Cruel. And as he caught gentle glances ahead of him, shaky as they were as his eyes threatened to come to a close, it had been the sight of red that made his stomach form a pit. Red. Along the ground. Red. The water, discolored and dark. A woman on the ground, still and covered in a scent that struck his chest in a way so tender that he could not explain. And he could not explain what he was seeing, other than the hand that life gave.

And the reality of this earth, and what it would do.

And as he approached, still and careful, there was horror. Lifelessness. His breath came heavy out of his mouth. There as a chill in his throat and ice along his back. There was too much to feel, and all too much to see. If he felt anything, it went unsaid, but to the woman on the ground, the blood along her mouth and the life she had around her, the life that was gone and the... the..

He stared at her, the woman, as if waiting for her to speak. Looking for life with a steady, harsh stare. What had God done to her? And a stranger, who stood by, and as he came up, his eyes locked to them in a look so cold, he felt numb in the pit of the rain. Primal, cold eyes.