Night
Notes
"Don't play that song!" she said. "They'll come for us!"
"Who?"
"The ghosts. It's their song. I heard them play it once. That's how I know it."
"When?"
"Eleven years ago."
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I saw a soldier in a metal uniform. I saw thirteen of them. They were walking side by side in a straight line. I could see only silver metal that had reflected upon it the light of the moon above. The soldiers were walking away towards the mountains in the south. I held the flute to my lips and blew the first note of their song and watched as the line of soldiers slowly began to change their course, rotating like a spoke in a wheel, towards the plains in the east.
I played the second note of their song and again, they turned, this time they were headed towards me. I was so scared. My heart raced in my chest and I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant. I just knew that something bad was happening. I tried to remember the third note...