The Apostate Trials

"I didn't crawl my way to the top of the food chain just to become a vegetarian."

First came the days of solitude.
After the days of the solitude came the trials.

Dark trials that forbade the agonizing destruction of one's humanity. The death of the apostate. A darkness that paved the way for new waves of insanity. The hushed whispers of a thousand voices. Reapers of flesh; takers of lives. Masters of misfortune and teachers of cannibalism, ways of the new age.

When two teenaged boys slowly succumb to the new horrors of reality, they spark one the world's most deadly wildfires, pushing their humanity to the brinks of no-return in order to retain it, an ironic paradox. Noah, the Violent Winds of Change, seeks to cast aside the very constructs of their twisted reality and start anew; Rylan, the End's Beginning, values acceptance of the new age's traditions.