There wasn't any warning -- at least, nothing that I could see. It seemed like a normal day at first. Then I heard some kind of commotion, but before I could tell what was going on, there were soldiers in red everywhere. It was an army, more humans than all of the Ferines I had ever met before, and they were attacking the village.
[Her expression is almost blank and she sounds like she's describing something that happened to someone else. It's almost easy to pretend it did, since everything happened so fast at the time.]
They killed anyone who fought back, and anyone who was about to escape. And some people they killed for no reason at all. Everyone else, they captured. ...A few people were away from the village at the time, my sister among them. But I don't think anyone else escaped.
[Now her expression is less blank, though it's only a small change: her lips tighten a little and her eyebrows bunch together slightly.]
I was one of the ones who got captured. One of the soldiers smashed my head against a wall and dropped me on the ground when I was stunned, to deal with me later, so I don't remember much of the attack. When they took us away, they finished burning our village to the ground.
[She looks down, breaking eye contact.]
Back then, I was sure that everything they'd told me about humans was true.
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There wasn't any warning -- at least, nothing that I could see. It seemed like a normal day at first. Then I heard some kind of commotion, but before I could tell what was going on, there were soldiers in red everywhere. It was an army, more humans than all of the Ferines I had ever met before, and they were attacking the village.
[Her expression is almost blank and she sounds like she's describing something that happened to someone else. It's almost easy to pretend it did, since everything happened so fast at the time.]
They killed anyone who fought back, and anyone who was about to escape. And some people they killed for no reason at all. Everyone else, they captured. ...A few people were away from the village at the time, my sister among them. But I don't think anyone else escaped.
[Now her expression is less blank, though it's only a small change: her lips tighten a little and her eyebrows bunch together slightly.]
I was one of the ones who got captured. One of the soldiers smashed my head against a wall and dropped me on the ground when I was stunned, to deal with me later, so I don't remember much of the attack. When they took us away, they finished burning our village to the ground.
[She looks down, breaking eye contact.]
Back then, I was sure that everything they'd told me about humans was true.