Opal Grainwind Chapter 6
For more than two months
the Demon Plague
has ravaged Linomnount.
The first several weeks
we knew it not
in my village Coastend.
With nobody’s death
no demons woke.
We were very lucky.
It slowly began
when people died
escalating quickly.
The past two weeks since
letter received
have been the worst of it.
Demons outnumber
those still alive.
We survive but grow weak.
My people are trapped
inside their homes,
demons prevent egress.
Brave carriers bring
food and water
to those that are too slow.
Too many are slain
doing this task
they then rise as demons.
I am Coastend’s queen.
I have duty.
I must defeat demons.
Daily I venture
from my lighthouse
with folks to guard my back.
They could overwhelm
while I wield the
Sword of Frozen Sorrow.
My foes cannot move,
frozen like ice,
the sword’s bite has magic.
Immobile demons
struck with hammers
their bodies fall apart.
The twenty-fourth day
of the fifth month
in nineteen twenty nine,
the demons collapsed.
They died again,
falling where they once raged.
They no longer moved
and thus ended
the curséd Demon Plague.