Bonus: The past connects into future

Everything was burning around him in black. His hands were wet too but not with water or tears.

It was a far worse shade of red than that and had a metallic smell to it. It overpowered the man’s senses even more than the smoke around him.

He took in the scene in front of him, the young body and a tree merged as one. The man had a sword inside his abdomen which almost gave it an illusion of being pinned to the tree but keen eyes could make out the veins that connected the two.

Dull eyes stared back at the crying child as if accusing him of letting him get killed. Purple eyes widened as the blood began pouring out of the child’s mouth and the faster it flew the more it burned the tree behind him.

The area covered with blood turned into a crystalline black but that was not all. It was slowly spreading all over the tree and the roots which connected the water saw the same phenomenon.

The air itself seemed to have changed.