𝖄/𝖓 & 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕬𝖕𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖎𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 (𝖂𝖊𝖉𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖉𝖆𝖞 𝖃 𝕸𝖆𝖑𝖊 𝕽𝖊𝖆𝖉𝖊r

-𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖕𝖙𝖊𝖗 II-

Nevermore In The Past

Maverick Blackwell

I'm outside of Nevermore sat upon a railing high above the quad, I'm currently staring down at the tree tattoo on my wrist. Crazy how a small mark grew into this, a tattoo of generations worth of pain, a family tree built up of violence and resentment, my abilities weren't given to me because of a rarity species of Outcast, no my abilities were given to me because some asshole thought God wanted my people purged.

Slowly, I brought my hand down and ran the tips of my fingers along one of the roots, following it up my forearm to my elbow. The cigarette between my lips burned as I inhaled, the orange glow lit up the front of his face.

I then brought the same hand I was using to touch the tattoo up to my lips taking the cigarette from them as smoke bellowed out of my mouth.

Staring at the now finished cigarette between my finger I scoffed and flicked it away, watching the embers fly out from the cigarette creating a trail.

But as I watched the cigarette fall to the quad below a vision flash before my eyes, a vision of the entire courtyard lit ablaze, flames crawled up the walls of the buildings and embers flew high into the sky high above the tree sat in the middle of the quad. What is this?

Four figures stood within the quad, two in front of the burning tree seeming to be human while the other two in the other side of the Quad looked to be a human and a large creature.

Before I could process what I was seeing the vision ended leaving the courtyard empty now. "The hell?" What was that? All the visions I've seen up to know have only been the burning barn but that was new. What's it trying to tell me? Was that the future? If so how soon would it come? Who were the people? What are you trying to show me Francis?

"Hey Blackwell!" A voice suddenly called out to me, making me turn to face the voice, but when I did a bright flash filled my vision... And then everything went black, it was so silent now.

...

All the previous sounds of the night that previously filled my ears just vanished

I tried stepping forward but when I did I heard a splash underneath my foot, I looked down and saw ripples in the ground next to my feet, the ground was made up of water.

Just as quick as the sounds had vanished they returned, the cries of people came from within the darkness before they changed to whispers. The whispers sounded like names, they were all male names.

Suddenly everything got bright lighting up the entirety of the darkness surrounding me, when the brightness calmed I saw a large tree before me but it was lit ablaze... And people hung from the branches on rope, their bodies dangled while flames danced around their corpses that seemed to never break apart.

I got closer to the large burning tree and stared at all the bodies that hung from it, they were all men.

The flames raised high into the sky, or the darkness above the tree. I stared at the burning bodies of all the men, I could see the body of Francis near the base of the tree.