Ashes to Ashes

This was it. The true ending of the world, where virtue is reduced to vice, and not even a single kind soul exists anymore. Any shred of beauty that one thrived under the glaring rays of sunlight has long since faded away into the fading history of humanity. As the last rays of the sun died, Aeris stared out the window of her old home. She mindlessly walked around the old wooden home; she had lived there long before the entire genocide happened, yet she had never felt this lonely. Before, there would usually be the random hiker bothering her for directions out of the maze of wood and life. She remembered feeling so annoyed at them.

Now, there was nothing to be annoyed at. The lingering memory of the academy she went to in order to see her daughter again had become rather painful to think of. In fact, she would rather not at this point, but she remembered that surge of irritation every time she had walk from her home to the academy. Plopping on the couch, she silently stared at the ceiling, until she heard a twig snap outside of her door.