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figure of one of the barbarians who had attacked the village moments before with a sword in his hand, clearly ready for attack.
     
    I immediately shouted to the young couple that their enemy was working his way towards us, but incredibly they did not respond to my warning, but instead continued to hold each other. I just stood in disbelief at their lack of urgency and once again I shouted - a lot louder this time - and yet again, there was no response. It seemed that no matter what I said or did, everyone around ignored me.
     
    The swordsman continued to move closer completely undetected and all that I could do was slowly back away from the intimidating figure coming forward, but as I did so, I tripped on a large stone that was lying on the ground, sending me crashing down onto the young man‘s dead parents.
     
    But to my complete astonishment, I did not fall onto the lifeless bodies, but instead I physically fell straight through them and lay on the ground in bemusement at what just happened.
     
    Not for the first time tonight, I had to confirm to myself that I wasn’t gone crazy so I nervously held out my hand to touch the dead woman beside me and yet again, my hand passed straight through her as if she just wasn’t there.
     
    At last, the young couple turned around after finally noticing their potential attacker sneaking up on them and with no thought for his own safety, the young man immediately took a lunge at the prowling soldier, sending the two men crashing to the ground, with the young man landing on top - and as the two men collided, the force of their bodies meeting sent the sword flying out of the attacker’s grasp onto the ground close by.
     
    The young man immediately spotted his enemy’s error and made a hopeful dive to retrieve the sword, but I could see that the soldier was a well-trained and incredibly agile fighter as he was just as quick to reach the sword even with all the armour that was on his body.
     
    Incredibly, both men held the sword in stalemate, with neither of them showing any sign of letting go as they began their struggle to discover which one of them would successfully claim it and achieve the upper hand.
                 
    The soldier had incredibly strong arm muscles and a grip to match and he was now comfortably beginning to show signs of overpowering the young man to reclaim ownership of the sword.
     
    But from completely out of nowhere, the brunette girl Maria ran towards the two grappling men and without warning, jumped into the air and kicked out at the soldier who now had the sword in his hand with every intent to use it. The young man tried to get to his feet in order to help Maria against the extremely bigger and stronger soldier, but alas he was too slow.
     
    And what happened next confirmed my fears.
     
    The soldier held the sword aloft and with one quick flick of his wrist, sent the sword flying quickly through the air until it nestled deep into Maria’s chest, who could do nothing more but just look down in shock.
     
    As Maria dropped to her knees, both men looked at each other for a moment before her killer made a dive for the sword that was still lodged inside the beautiful dying girl’s chest.
     
    The young man also made an equally determined leap for the sword too and the two men once again wrestled each other for superiority, both of them gripping the sword firmly around its handle in stalemate.
     
    I never did find out who the winner was as an almighty flash suddenly appeared from nowhere, temporarily blinding me - and when I did finally manage to regain my vision, I realized that everyone around me had disappeared and I was now lying on the ground in the alleyway once again.
     
    The light continued to blind me, but it was now accompanied by footsteps becoming increasingly louder as they approached and then the light suddenly deviated away from my face and illuminated a different part of the alleyway to my left, revealing the lifeless body of