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AFROFuturism
Stafford Levon Battle
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I rested, leaning on the granite column and wall
behind me.
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Heavy Footsteps thundered in the
Royal Palace. Foreign voices shouted.
•HOARSE
•FEARFUL
•DESPERATE!
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I had bathed, attended to my most grievous wounds, and fully re-armed. I was completely aware that the battle had not gone as we expected. By treachery and sorcery, we found ourselves outnumbered 1000 to one.
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My warrior Brothers and Sisters stood defiantly and
only died after inflicting huge gaping wounds to the
northern demon beast and its fanatical minions. Blood ran
in rivers. Rivers became OCEANS!
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The Enemy saw me, hesitated, bunching up on the stairs and shouting commands for more troops, perhaps, archers with deadly poisoned arrows.
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My musket was armed but I depended more on sharp, molded metal to teach these dogs a lesson that they would take to their graves and all the way back to the icy glaciers where they were spawned.
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The Shield I carried replaced the old and battered one that I had to abandon in the throat of an invader; he was one of their
esteemed, immortal, warrior gods.
Strange, that he had bleated like a common domestic goat when I slew him.
I laughed as the ENEMY surged forward.
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