The War of the Worlds - The Stillness

The silence was deafening. After days trapped in the suffocating darkness of the scullery, our narrator emerges into a world transformed, a desolate landscape painted in shades of red and silence. Hunger gnaws at him, his body weakened, his mind haunted by the ghosts of the curate and the ever-present craving for food. Yet, amidst the despair, a flicker of hope emerges. The pit, once a hive of Martian activity, lies dormant, the mechanical behemoths vanished. This chapter, titled "The Stillne...