• Alice woke up, in a cold sweat shivering from head to toe.

    That hadn't been a good dream

    Still shivering she walked slowly out of her tent and looked around at her surroundings. Dense marshland covered almost everywhere, apart from the small bit of dry land her and her warriors were sleeping on, in their tents. They were all still asleep; the night was silent, they didn't get the nightmares like she did constantly every single night, no they slept peacefully. They didn't repeatedly see their houses burning to the ground, didn't hear the screams of the trapped and the moans of the dying...

    She shook her head and started to walk back to the tent, just in time to see a burning object come crashing from the sky. It landed with a soft plup in the middle of the marsh, on one of the many isolated parts of dry land, and she could clearly hear some kind of almost human noise coming from it.

    Wondering what she was letting herself in for, she ran towards it, knowing that the slightest trip would drown her in the marsh...