Redemption

The sky had calmed, the warriors collapsed, and the guardsman that remained had ceased to fight after the sudden silence which had crossed their transmitters. Justice and Kypher had made their way up to the top of the tower where Zahaynei stood giving orders, and they threw him down. So, now there were no orders to be had and there was no more reason for them to fight.

Kelvin could see on the faces of the remaining guardsmen that their will to fight had ended. The battle was lost and they knew that it was. Even so, she wondered how things had gone for the others on the inside of those castle walls. Still, as she looked, even the air had seemed to become brighter as the sunlight had begun to break through the city's eternal haze of darkness.

He was walking with Blackridge when Avera spotted them and came running over.

'Avera...'

"Kelvin!" she called out, her heart filled with excitement as she wrapped her arms around the young man's neck.