When your life took a sudden turn of event, it was never easy to adapt to the change. Moreover so, when the change took the worse turn.
Their peaceful life, their loving family, their harmonious neighbor, their friend, their home. All of it, had been robbed away by a stranger that suddenly came, like a sudden wave that washed away their sand castle.
They always thought it was a good thing they did not witness with their own eyes, their family being slaughtered. Because that was their only way to comfort their soul every night before they went to sleep. They thought to themselves, perhaps, miracle happened, perhaps, someone lived, perhaps, everyone was saved albeit injured.
It did not took long until they received the information that everyone from their village had died and it was only them, lived. They could not sleep and was haunted by nightmares, night by night. It took them days, months, and few years for them to accept their reality.