Empires Of Mystery

My hands traces the engravings in the railings l that I had felt so many times before but they felt different this time. Actually if all did. Maybe It had just been a while. Or maybe it was because this time I was coming here for a different purpose. Fighting for a different side. My hands reached the reached the door as I harshly knocked three times. The door creaked open ever so slowly and I heard the ever so familiar voice telling me to come in. Well, I thought, this is it. Start of an empire, end of an era.