The Letter

In a devastated world of endless war, a lone special forces soldier treks across desolate hills and forests, clutching a sealed letter marked with a royal crest. Exhausted, injured, and relentlessly pursued by heavily armed black-clad soldiers, he pushes toward a cottage pictured in a faded photograph—the mission’s end point. Along the way, he shows fleeting humanity by feeding a starving old man, but watches coldly as the man is executed by his pursuers. Finally reaching the isolated cottage, he meets the Minister, a guarded figure of authority. The soldier delivers the letter, only to see the Minister react with grim inevitability, destroy it, and attempt to kill him. Forced to fight back, the soldier kills the Minister and painstakingly reconstructs the shredded letter. When he reads it, the revelation is unbearable—a truth so horrifying that it drains all hope of survival or redemption. As enemy forces close in, he flees the cottage, lets the letter drift into the wind, and meets his fate in a final blaze of defiance. The letter’s contents remain unseen, leaving only the soldier’s horror and the echo of distant artillery as the world darkens.