Echoes of Eden

Tobias: The First Campaign

Tobias first deployment was a desolate  barren war-torn land of strife.

He stepped into the battlefield where he knew only that death was part of life's cycle.

The sights and sounds were foreign and yet eerily familiar in a trepidous way.

It was almost as if he'd walked these fields before distinctly in a time much earlier.

He led his men with great valor.

His instincts always shone sharp and true.

But for some foreign reason every victory tasted like a déjà vu.

The screams of fallen comrades coupled with the blood upon his hands.

All of it echoed through his psyche not unlike cursed shifting sands.

In the heat of combat Tobias saved a child from death.

Her grateful eyes a mirror to a past he'd never met.

A flash of recognition flashed across her face a feeling so deep and raw.

A look at acceptence and gratitude.

This act of simple kindness was but a glimpse of what he saw in his haunted dreams.