"AAARRRHH!!!"
Daniel's scream tore out of him without restraint. It ripped through the battlefield and cut across the endless clash of steel and Ether, carrying a heavy weight that forced itself into the awareness of everyone within earshot, even those fully engaged in life-and-death struggles.
The sound continued to rise and break again and again, fueled by grief and twisting far more violently as his shoulders trembled and his body remained rooted in place for that suffocating moment.
He knelt in the spreading pool of blood. His voice echoed uncontrollably, until even the fighters locked in combat began to falter as confusion.
That scream didn't belong to someone still fighting to survive. It belonged to someone who had already lost something that could never be taken back.
The sound lingered before it finally broke apart. Leaving behind an unnatural silence, before Daniel moved.
