C264 NOT THE SAME SIDE ANYMORE

Nobody was waiting for soldiers the following morning.

They awaited one another.

Aria was the first to spot it in the fields.

Work resumed again, but not the way it used to. No one rushed. Nobody fled at far-off, nonexistent hoofbeats. Though shorter, the conversations were shorter. When disagreements arose, the first voice raised did not cause them to separate.

They remained.

That was new