>>12001235She felt like fainting, or screaming, or dropping her gun and running. But before she could so much as move, the mass of...Everything was upon her. Ripping her apart, shooting her, tearing at her, doing every horrible thing possible to her body...and she didn't feel it.
She stood on the top of the trench and watched as her body died. It was...odd. Frightening, and confusing, but...odd as well. She watched as the awful hordes ripped that form apart. The corpse dumped onto the ground, blood mixing with the mud. One of her own eyes looked back up at her through a cracked lens. So, she was dead...
She blinked and there she was again, lying on the ground, in the same trench. A gun with her, and a line of soldiers readying for the next charge. She took up her position and saw them, all of them, again. Once more the horde charged, and once more her line shot and fought, and killed as many as they could, but as always they spilled into her trench and killed her.
And again, she watched from above the trench.
She blinked and again, the trench, the fight, the death. It happened countless times, and it would happen countless times more. Then she realized that she was rising and fighting, while she was watching. She turned around to see what was behind her, and saw just a faint glow far far off in the distance, and an endless line of trenches, one in front of the other.
And she understood.
She opened her eyes. She was in her room, her original room. She sat up and saw Kadja sitting in the corner, reading a book. She smiled. "Good morning." She said. "Congratulations. You're now a Confirmed member of the Cycle of Terranis." She pointed at Carolina's right shoulder. She looked and saw that there was a scar there, in the shape of the Double Circle. It gave her an odd sense of accomplishment.
"Anyway, pack your things. We just got word from Dell." Kadja said as she got up. "You're going back home."
