Fire

"The night's here, Okabe-sama."

"Do you think me to be blind?" The general replied with irritation, sitting upon his horse and looking at his troops with distaste. "What a waste of time having all the men gathered here. With a mere five hundred we'd be able to hold the river with ease."

"There's that rumour about Zerok m-"

"Another word out of you, and I'll disembowel you myself." He snapped. With Matsudaira gone, things should be looking up for him, but why did everything feel exactly the same? He had been a thorn in his side for the longest of times, and yet even with him gone, he still felt the same irritating itch. "A god would not interfere in the affairs of man. It is a rumour spread by a pathetic coward's intent on shirking their duty."