She stepped back from the display, her hands falling to her sides.
"Captains," Raven said, her voice hollow beneath the crow mask, "this is what we are fighting against."
The captains were completely frozen.
The details were so absurd, so grotesque, so beyond the scope of anything they had ever imagined, that their minds struggled to accept what their eyes had seen.
A system.
A factory.
A machine that had been grinding up human souls and children's bodies for two thousand years, right beneath the surface of a world that thought itself civilized.
And no one had known.
No one had suspected. T
he demons had corrupted everything, governments, economies, the very fabric of human society, and humanity had been too busy fighting itself to notice.
Captain Lily spoke first, her voice trembling.
