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Darkness was all that greeted for those first moments, calm, unchanging, peaceful, darkness. He first began to hear, hear the wind as it blew over grass then he opened his eyes to see dark clouds above, hovering in the sunlit sky. As those few moments faded away what replaced the calm was panic, fear he didn't know from what but suddenly he had to get up he had to get away. Zal rolled onto his stomach and pushed himself off the ground and up to his feet and just as all his weight was on his feet his legs gave out from under and he crumpled to the floor as all of his weight descended back to the ground suddenly and painfully. Pain ran across his whole body, pain from hitting the ground and pain .. from something else. Then, moments later, as he tried to collect himself, more pain, but not pain that was derived from the body, no this pain was centered in his own mind and it seemed to be infinitely worse then before as he trembled on the ground unable to make a sound. Soon it subsided and he lay there unmoving as he heard people moving around in the grass, one seemed to have become sick as he heard the sound of sick hitting the dirt. 

Zal slowly got to one knee and looked about himself, squinting through the last vestiges of pain. He saw bodies in the grass bodies that were not moving. He saw a woman checking on a young body, a boy that seemed to be afraid of the situation with a large castle in the distance behind him and another boy that seemed to be out of place with calm attitude. Zal finally stood, carefully, not wanting to fall again, as he did he saw another body begin to stir and at first looked with interest at it and then horror as he realized it was without a doubt dead, as the only left of the body were its bones and odd garments. It stood and walked to a childs form bent down so close to the childs face, Zal became convinced that it was doing something to the child but whatever it was he was too late stop it as it stood and walked toward the frightened boy that had noticed a large castle behind him. 

With a surge of energy and adrenaline Zal ran in front of the skeleton drawing his sword and calmly lowering it at the skeleton. 
"Whatever you are or might be you'd best speak quickly and cleverly to save whatever semblance of life you might have left" Zal said as he slowly backed up with a hand splayed out behind making sure that boy knew to stay where he was for his safety.
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