Unicorn Sacrifices

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by Setlu Vairst


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  The humans were gazing directly ahead and none could see the mighty beast that flashed through the air to their right. Instead, the humans continued gazing forward, continued advancing, and continued destroying the beasts that were the closest to them.

  Savagery hung in the air and danced upon the despair of the beasts, a few of which had kept their eyes toward the skies, awaiting any sign of the one who would come to save them.

  Some of those beasts now saw a shape in the sky and tried to determine what it was. And some of those beasts died at the mercy of the cruel weapons of the humans just as a gladness and relief washed over them as they studied the sky. Some beasts died happy, regardless of the agony.

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