Empty Skies

People try and flee their houses - others smash furniture on the walls of soldiers. Gunfire. Bombs. Screams and screeches fill the air, thin with an audible waft of burning flesh. Fred screams and bleeds and there's red so much red- People cry. People die. The next day she packs a duffel bag with some clothes and enrolls in military school. Under her eyes, the city burns.