Board :Tales of the People
Author :Archon Iyagi
Subject :"Return to Peacetime" by Hisha
Date :12/1
It was in the middle of blizzard.
We were suppose to marching back to our main camp when we, the support platoon of Imperial Army saw a strange light not far from our location.

"What was that light?"
"Two of you! Go check that light!"
Said our captain

Two of my comrades picking up their armor and run to the location.

<b>15 minutes passed...
<b>   30 minutes passed...
<b>         2 hours passed...

"Something not right, they took too long"
"You! pick up your armor and weapon, go get them"
"This might be a trap, be careful soldier!"

I was ordered to check on them, i armored myself and lift my weapon.
I run to the location and gradually slowing down when I found a man lying down dripped with blood.

"What is that? A trap?"
"No.... someone lying there!"

I approached that man with extra awareness, he was badly injured

"Hey what happened? Are you alright?"

He tried to talk but went unconscious. I tried to search around for a while to find my comrades but no sign of them are found. I decided to bring the man back and reporting to my captain

"Alright, I will ask for tracking platoon to track our comrades, we are heading back to our camp for now!" Said our captain

Later after....
We found out that this man was saved by our comrades.
This man, who is a villager, was on his way to our camp. He brought valuable information stolen from the Mongolians.

His town was ravaged by the Mongolians and he is the only one who survived. Having a grief with the Mongolians, he snuck to Mongol camp and managed to stole a valuable information.

Our camp located not far from the battlefield between us the Imperial Army and The Mongols.
We managed to push back the mongols from taking over our kingdom. This is their last defend line, we are having a tough battle this time.

Our medic team was unable to save this man life; he was badly injured when i found him.
Furthermore, this chilling temperature and blizzard made his condition worse.

<b>I remain unable to say just those words "Thank you"

That was the last word spoken by him. He knew his life will end soon; he tried to tell us what was happened back there.

The Mongols invented a new weapon to fight us. They were on their way to test the weapon when they spotted this man sneaking around in their camp.
Being unable to catch this man, they used their new weapon on him. That explained the strange light we saw back then. Their weapon did not work perfectly and this man was saved from instant dead back then.

A few seconds before the second hit, our comrades arrived and sacrificed their lives to protect this man. The Mongols ran away as they afraid lots of us will come after them. They want to keep their new weapon a secret.

"I have told you what I witnessed back then, please bring peace back to this land"

"Dont let those people who saved me and my lives left in vain"

"Now i can return to where my family is, my only regret is that i cannot give my thanks to your comrades"


<b>As he laying down
<b>        He close his eyes
<b>            And return to peacetime




~ Hisha ~