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In the freezing, wet, and bloody battlefield men sit terrified. The only thing that the men can hear is the mortar fire and their breathing between each shot.

None dare peer above the trench at the graveyard above, but as they move supplies around the camp or ready shells to separate another family from their loved one, a man climbs out of trenches and onto the ground where fallen lie and surrounded by this death and fear he starts to dance.

A captain rushes the tight tunnels barging past his men and arrives at the sounds of confusion.

"Brightly what in the hell is happening?!'' Capt James Lebert asked, burning a hole through Britly's head. Britly turned towards no man's land and pointed towards the man dancing as the enemy ready to fire

"It's Wellington he just climbed the trench wall and started dancing"

The captain turned away and headed back to his quarters knowing trying to save Wellington would just lead to more death.

Britly lied in bed unable to sleep, but unlike the others who were kept awake by constant mortar fire, Britly lay awake because of the sounds of the crazed man still dancing.

The captain woke early in the morning ready to face the torture but as he walked down the disease-ridden trench, he saw it britly was next to the man dancing as well, and as their fellow soldiers saw this they out of pure hopelessness joined them.

"Get down here all of you! Have you gone mad?" The captain shouted as more and more of his men climbed the rotting walls but as the captain watched this he heard the sound he knew he was going to hear "bang".

The general threw the report onto the table and stared down James.

"Are you telling me that all of your men died dancing?" The general questioned rising out of his chair.

"Yes sir" James replied as the general ready himself a drink

"The world has gone mad" the general sipped his drink and looked out onto the ruined streets.

"May I say sir that my men weren't mad, they were happy?" James said causing the general to look at him with confusion

"What do you mean captain?" He said finishing his drink

"All mine men were the next to go over the trench and they made the choice of not making another pointless charge," James said thinking back to the many men he sent over those walls.

"You know I could send you to prison just for saying that," the general remarked as he finished his drink

"All the more reason why I should have joined them," James replied downing the general's bottle and leaving his office.