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to find so I decided to explore the village a little before heading there. In the day everything was a splendour to look at but in the dark, it looked abandoned and empty. There were no torches lit and no one was in sight. I quickly but quietly snuck alongside a wall when I ran into someone face first. My first thought was “Shit! I’m busted,” but the person didn’t move. Baffled, I walked up to them and almost felt my heart jump out of my chest. The person wore that same armor like the guards at the gate but when I looked them in their eyes, only hollow sockets looked back. It was a skeleton in the armor and by the looks of it, the person died a very long time ago.
“What in hell's name is going on here? I can still sense life in this thing but- it shouldn't be possible.” I commented loudly.
Thinking quickly I decided to run back to the main gates, I needed to check something. The gate house was wide open so I rushed in and to my horror discovered two skeletons with armor and spears sitting in chairs. These were the guards from a few days ago. A pit formed in my stomach and I sprinted through the streets, finding more and more skeletons by looking into the windows of the houses. Everyone was dead. This couldn’t have happened overnight, something was really wrong here. I returned to the hostel and broke down every door (which was easy given that they were made of thin wood), finding skeleton after skeleton. The people I had been watching for days still stood in the courtyard, in the exact same positions. The child, the man, the woman and the wife. I had seen much in my life but this haunting sight stuck with me for many years after. I collapsed to the marble floor next to the child’s skeleton, trying to figure out what could do this. After a while I made my way back up to the room and checked up on the