The young girl can no longer clearly remember the night when the entire village was devoured by black flames.
Suddenly woken up from her bedding, she was hurriedly taken through the ruins by someone, amidst the continuous screams in the night, before being swallowed by the currents encircling the village, sliding into a bottomless dark waterway.
She awoke in a sludge, where the green grass and flowers of the wetland were burned to ashes by the black flames, mixed with the silent waters into black mud. Before she could clear the suffocating ash from her nose and throat, she was hoisted up by armor-clad soldiers and thrown into a prison wagon.
In the distance, the Heaven-Supporting Giant Tree she could see when sneaking out of the village to play was still burning, its black flames mixed with sparks it spewed out, dyeing the sky a purplish-black.
