She hung in the sky held by a thin white thread. Her body impossibly arched and slowly, gracefully spinning. Blood soaked ribbons dangled from her waist fluttering like leaves in the wind. Her body sang with great sadness. Every inch of her displaying the grief that had been buried deep within her heart for centuries. Tied and dangling over the earth she wept. Every tear falling silently, hitting the ground and sinking deep into our world.
She was one of the hundreds executed here by the Cazen. The Cazen was one of the first tribes to set up after the final war. They are a barbarous kind that hurt the innocent and track down all the Beings, malicious or not, that came out from hiding after the humans fell. She was known as a Visan. Visans where pure creatures, completely silent but express more emotions than humans can name. She had been spotted hiding up in an oak tree watching the Cazen children play and so she had found herself hung by the ankle and beaten from the same tree. Of course, she came down willingly, unknowing of there nature. She let them tie her and hang her upside down. But when they started in with the knife she began to cry and the earth wept with her. It had shaken with rage and guilt for creating such monsters. The tree's branches shook and leaves fell, protesting the death of a loving creature, but the earth was ignored.
"It's not her fault." I murmur looking down with shame, my toes dug deep within the earth feeling its hot anger burn my pale white toes. I look around quickly worried someone had heard but no one's head had turned to look at me in horror and shock, no guards had come and grabbed me, they all had stayed transfixed on her. As I turned my attention back to her, fighting the urge to stop this torture, little buds beneath her started to sprout. The crowd around me gasped as each bud quickly grew becoming pure white lilies. They reached up to her screaming silently, begging for her safety. She looked through the crowd her eyes, her pure blue broken eyes searching for someone who knew that this was wrong but all she found was me. I stared back so intraced in her pain and the truths that we both saw in the humans. Her breathing slowed as the last of her energy was set on me. And then she smiled, ever so slightly, and let out a small whimper as she turned into ash. Every particle danced in the air settling on the lilies. We stood there in shock.
"Lilys? But those have not been seen since..." the voice trailed off no one mentioned the war. It was outlawed. For all the Cazen knew, humans were still in control.
"The earth knew that this was wrong, the earth saw that-" The women's voices was silenced. The people around her stood frozen, blood splattered across the dirty rags they call clothing. No one dared to help her, no one wanted to be killed next.
"No one will speak, no one will move. If one word escapes the forest you will be killed. Do you understand?"
The voice boomed, echoing and bouncing from person to person. He had been watching us. He had been watching her. Why? There was no reason to watch, this was a normal execution. Thud. His massive body appeared before us. The leaves falling around him from where he had jumped. His eyes bore into us.
Silence.
" I said do you understand?"
Silence.
" Are you people all deaf! Do you understand?"
" Yes Sir." We all said in unison.
It was a lie. No one understood anything, and everyone was scared.
