Scars Within The Fallout

Scars Within the Fallout takes place after Kiranasa begins personally investigating the worlds already touched by catastrophe. Nuclear fire has fallen. Cities still stand, but only barely. Survivors remain—injured, starving, irradiated—and many of her lieutenants never returned from their assignments.

What she finds is not chaos.

It’s absence.

Across multiple Earths, the destruction follows familiar contours. Some lieutenants survive. Some die. Some vanish entirely. In every place, the damage feels too measured to be random—too quiet in the wrong ways. Bodies fall, but something vital is missing. The silence doesn’t behave the way it should.

This song sits in the space between devastation and understanding. It isn’t about victory or punishment. It’s about standing in the aftermath and realizing that what remains tells a story of its own. The scars aren’t just left by fire—they’re left by planning, by evasion, by something that knew where not to be.

Kiranasa doesn’t come to claim ground or issue judgment. She comes to read what the fallout reveals, gather those still breathing, and carry what remains forward. The work doesn’t end when the fire stops. That’s when it begins.

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Lyrics

Cities glow where the sirens died
Smoke hangs low in a wounded sky
Footsteps echo through broken streets
Too many names beneath our feet

We didn’t come to claim the ground
Just read what silence wrote it down
Windows stare with nothing left
Breath held tight in the after-death

We touched the scar
It didn’t scream
No weight below
No soul between

Scars within the fallout
Cut into the stone
Scars within the fallout
Proof of what is gone

Scars within the fallout
Still warm in the rain
Scars within the fallout
Nothing left the same

Some still stood when the fires fell
Some still spoke through a burning shell
Hands reached out with no demand
Just asking where they’d land

We carried forms that wouldn’t stay
No echo when they slipped away
I felt the space where a voice should be
And knew the dead were watching me

A body fell
But nothing stayed
The silence wrong
In a careful way

Scars within the fallout
Marked but not erased
Scars within the fallout
Time couldn’t displace

Scars within the fallout
Lines too clean to miss
Scars within the fallout
Proof that something hid

We gathered what the fire ignored
Shaking hands still reaching forward
No promise made
No past undone

Just work that starts
When burning’s done

Not restored
Not redeemed

Still standing
Still unseen

Scars within the fallout
Built into our days
Scars within the fallout
Shaping what remains

Scars within the fallout
Carried through the ash
Scars within the fallout
And moving past the blast

We carry what’s left
And build from the ashes

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