A History of War
Life is difficult enough for a Lirian soldier. Training for ten years, hunting evil deimos, solving crimes, facing powerful weilders, keeping the peace in a tension-filled world, each Lirian soldier has a lot on their plate. It doesn't become any easier if you have to deal with a dark past that looms at every corner. How will Lais Felix and Helen Song, two best friends with tragic pasts, handle life as soldiers while running from their past? Will they manage to escape their tragic beginnings? Or will the past finally catch up to them?
Elen's Pain
HELEN
Then it starts, the thing that I worry about the most. As the memories replay themselves in a loop in front of my eyes, so realistic I could almost touch the cold and lifeless bodies of my people, I feel it. I feel it now as I felt then. After I feel the bitter pang of sorrow, it comes.
Anger, rage so pure it can melt through all the sorrow I feel. Anger so potent I know it can turn this world over and on its head. Anger so bitter that it can set this world ablaze. I feel it now as I felt is then, anger so pure, anger so unadultered, anger that I feel to be most justified.
My entire tribe, my people, my family, my home, wrecked beyond recognition, defiled of their honor, abused to the point of self-loathing and wishes for death. Slaughtered because we cannot fight back, abused because of our vows. This anger, this anger so white hot. The more I remember the events of those days, the bigger it grows.