I'll tell you how this all started. First, the shrieking sound of metal and then the evening sky, like talons, shredding through our plane. Edward, the solemn boy sitting on my right, was swept out into nothingness. It was like God had reached in and pulled him straight into the afterlife. I turned to Keith, the other boy on my left, and his eyes widened silently as his face was overcome by a deathly pallor. Then, blasts of fire followed by swirling darkness.
Our descent was like a dream. I can imagine myself waking up in its midst and catching jumbled glimpses of angelic boys, dressed in their blue uniforms, half dead and drifting around me in silence.
Upon awakening the next morning...
