Demona Chronicles: The Empire Strikes Back
"Twilight of the Empire"
We now live in the twilight of this Empire. Through bad times and good, feast and famine, the Smitintinian People have endured. Though often beaten, we were never truly defeated. And yet through it all we could never stop time. Things were changing, slowly and quietly at first, but changing none the less. Throughout the morning, noon, and afternoon of the Empire the fires of industry blazed onward with purpose and meaning. Now, they flicker with doubt. When this happened I do not know, only that looking back I see the days are brighter than they appear to be when I look forward. This is only natural, though it is somewhat bittersweet. As I close this chapter of my life I feel that I accomplished a great many things. True, some were left undone, but we are not out of time yet. The world will go on without the Smitintinian Empire and most will forget it or only recall its brief if bright role in their history. For us, winter approaches not with the excitement of life renewed but the realization that in this darkness we will meet our fate.
-Demona
We now live in the twilight of this Empire. Through bad times and good, feast and famine, the Smitintinian People have endured. Though often beaten, we were never truly defeated. And yet through it all we could never stop time. Things were changing, slowly and quietly at first, but changing none the less. Throughout the morning, noon, and afternoon of the Empire the fires of industry blazed onward with purpose and meaning. Now, they flicker with doubt. When this happened I do not know, only that looking back I see the days are brighter than they appear to be when I look forward. This is only natural, though it is somewhat bittersweet. As I close this chapter of my life I feel that I accomplished a great many things. True, some were left undone, but we are not out of time yet. The world will go on without the Smitintinian Empire and most will forget it or only recall its brief if bright role in their history. For us, winter approaches not with the excitement of life renewed but the realization that in this darkness we will meet our fate.
-Demona