



As out of nowhere the man stoped the horse with a harsh movement wich made it snort and take a step back in protest. The mans eyes had dashed from left to the right and now stared as if he was looking after someone who had dashed before him, yet the man was still alone. Without a word the rider leaned forwards in the saddle, giving a deep bow while closing his eyes to prevent the tears from falling as they stubbornly put a shining shimmer to the eyes. After a while the man looked up in silence and stared at the house to his right. With a shaking hand he turned his horse, forcing it into a trott over the moss and flowerclad streets. Occasionally the man stoped the animal in harsh manners, staring from one side or the other, his eyes dancing as if he followed a person with his eyes. But to anyone who might be looking it was mearly a man starting to panic as reality finally hit him.



How long had it been since he last rode through these streets? All to long it seems. With a bitter look on his face tha man bent slightly forwards, petting the horse on its neck. At the top of the guardhouse, well what was left of it, the banner of his once proud and strong family, his motherland. The colours were clearly faded from years of harsh sun and weather as well as beeing torn. All around the now plantcoverd street was swords, spears and reminants of armours, most werry familiar to him, for they carried his family crest upon them. So, had some of them been the men he had joined upon the battlefield? Was it perhaps some friends that he had left behind all those years ago? As he rode in silence through the crumbling city that at one point had been the most bustling city in the world, yet now, dead, decaying and crumbling to dust. As he past one skeleton after the other, a child beeing held by its parent, a soldier that had a spear through its armour, Someone just looking as if it had been sleeping was it not for the arrow penetrating its head. With a shiver the man steared the horse through familiar yet compleatly alien streets.