General English IA3 excerpts

remembering

over the scorched land, casting jagged shadows across the brittle soil.

The sun hung low

red earth had faded to pale grey under years of drought. The rivers were gone. The trees stood as withered ghosts.

Once-rich

ones sold in tourist shops - this was different

Not the plastic

to anomaly detection was fast. Brutal.

The government's response

with him, silent and radiant, their forms humming with ancient strength. It coursed into him - not strength like soldiers knew, but something older.

The spirits stood

Samuel felt it in his chest, rising - not fear, but fire. Ancestral fire.

Unbreakable.

moments ago cracked and lifeless, now pulsed faintly underfoot - like it had exhaled. He looked out across the land. The same dry hills, the same broken trees - but now they looked different. They were watching. Waiting. Remembering.

The land,

come again. With more drones, more lies. But Samuel wasn't afraid. He had seen the truth. He had felt it.

The government would

the horizon. Into land. Into story. Into new beginnings.

He turned towards

to restore what was taken had only just begun.

The journey