Under Starside Skies

Paces quicken in the sunless dawn, on the plains below

As terra shifts so does the night, unbound with no ray of hope.

Scatter, the wide array of a thousand harried souls

Dispersed throughout the lonely camp fleeing to their hold

From Aeries high in show of force so quickly do they come

To fall upon the weaker flesh and fell them where they run

Broken Shield of day, And so they carry on

And on the shepherds herd as few may tend to stray

Always heading eastward toward the red and cracking clay

Barrier reef to the north and mires in the south

The path veers ever steeply to the estuaries mouth.

Failure in the tithe

The pact was undone

Swift it moves... into sight

Swift it slices... through the hide

Swift it falls... on the pile beneath

Under Starside skies!

From crimson earth I rise!

My burden borne and my steel un-stilled.

Tempered with care a few remain

To return to the fastness high

I ride the rising crests away.

"Pushed to find a way

To sate a higher lust

So through night I ride!"

"My burden borne by craft of hand

And strength of will

Under Starside skies!"

A darker path

Through twilight's sky

Awash in a sea of cries

The preternatural rush

Of a frenzied kill

Under Starside skies