The Ashes Remain.

Pair: none

Warning: very bleak

For the gw jeopardy lj community, category Zechs / 100.

Ashes in paradise. The crude smell of burning meat, watering mouths, gutting knives, children screaming.

Ashes...

Yellow red tongues licking up toward heaven, tasting the sky, feeding on the dead. Drinking, munching, cracking, screaming.

Screaming.

The ashes are screaming.

The form of a boy, eight years old, swimming in ashes. Screaming. Screaming hatred, screaming curses, screaming revenge. Crying. Luster blue eyes crying, terribly frightened... alone... screaming.

Ashes...

The ashes of Peacecraft. The ashes of Sank. The ashes of King, Queen. Prince. Heir. Tradition. Marquise.

Ashes...

His life is ashes. Dead. Gone. Decayed.

Stop screaming.

Silence.

Ashes...

The ashes remain.