Once Banished [The retribution]

Chapter 26

The loud wailing and mournful aura of the palace revive Rey back to reality. His world was black, spinning, and revolving. He could feel his head banging hard, aching as if something hard had been used to knock his skull.

As Rey kept coming back alive, his vision started getting clearer, as did the wailing and mourning of people. Their noise keeps getting into his head, disrupting his brain, and causing his headache to increase.

"He's alive!" He heard people gasping, and he looked clueless.

Rey dragged his body to a sitting position, and he could hear people gasping in shock. That made him ignore all the pain he was feeling in his body and rest his back on the wall behind him. Eventually, Rey was able to get a proper glimpse of his environment, and what he saw made his heart sink.

He was sitting on a bed in the middle of the physician's hall. All around him, wailing in pain, are the casualties of war. Some had a leg; some had none; others had an arm; and most had none. Some had bruise