The Reckoning

They came in the night.

A seething mass, as far as the eye could see.

The open maws of hell itself.

Greeting us with a wicked grin.

A million fires, as vast as the ocean.

They came in the night.

Sweeping everything before them.

All scattered like leaves before a gale.

Scaling our walls, overwhelming all.

Redoubtable were we no more.

And so this became,

Their first push against our world.