Liberty's Cusp

It was warm, so warm. Kayla had forgotten the last time she had seen the sun without any shrapnel or smoke to hinder the view. But here she was outside, her uncles mansion still in one piece standing in front of her. Had it all been a dream? Was there no war after all?
Kayla walked down the dirt road, past the fields filled with working men. She looked over and blushed, he was here again. Would he wait for her today as well? That's what he had done the last few times she visited. He was so handsome, and such a gentleman. The first time he'd walked her down the road he'd said "A pretty girl like you shouldn't have to go anywhere unaccompanied. May I?"
She'd agreed, trying to look as if her stomach wasn't in that very moment, doing flips of joy. And since then, instead of going home once his shift was over, he would wait for her to leave her uncles house and walk her back down the dirt road.
She watched him now, He'd stopped working the moment he noticed her and waved smiling, she waved back, suppressing a smile of her own and continued up the road. She didn't want to seem too excited.
"Stop slacking off Bradly. What, you've never seen a pretty lady before?" Tanner the supervisor laughed, those who were near enough to hear laughed too. Tom came up behind him, laying a rough hand on his shoulder "You're not the first to fall for that one you know, and you won't be the last." the rest continued to laugh as Tanner rushed them all back to work.
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Kayla misses the old days, back before the war. Before Arnold went mad, and before Artchrieal's forces (otherwise known as The Watch) invaded her home land Sandos. Now she has to lead a group of rebels that is barely surviving, in the hopes of driving them out. Only it seems that every time they feel they have a leg up on those fiends, Arnold always ends up being one step ahead of them.