Tales From the Old New Land - Century 2 - Generation 7 - A Little More

 And the war did rage for seven years, the very machines created by the builders of Babylon in hopes to conquer death did become the world's executioners: boulders of dashing pulverization hurled into masses of men; basins of tar lifted atop the walls of cities, burned to boiling and cast upon millions of innocent as rain. Rulers wished to preserve their men as chattel, yet their chattel lay upon hills as carrion; their blood transfigureth grains of sand into forest, their flesh turneth all that lives into plague. And a third of the earth's men did die, and one third of the men of the earth returned home cripples.

And behold, the unfathered children of the Festival at Babel had turned twelve. And by such time as their fifth years when war beginneth throughout the world, they all were cast out from their mothers as reminders of  former sin. Great was their disgrace, and the streets of the world were tumultuous with cries through their mothers' windows: "Mothers, why hast thou forsaken us?" And they did sleep and eat within the streets of every city of the world - robbing for food and maurauding for shelter. And the Children of Babel were much despised. 

And as more men were forever away in battle to die, the unfathered boys and girls did become as men for every city. By six did they learn to ply trades no man in the city did practice. By eight they did tenant the markets of their cities. By ten did they take among themselves to man and wife. And by twelve they were manifold among ministers for the kings of the earth. 

And verily, all able bodied men fought the world elsewhere, so there was none to shield mothers from their unwanted children. Few were the new children of men, and the children who did live were great with hunger. And the mothers did come to their unwanted children and ask for sustenance they had not means to give, and the Children of Babel did grant their mothers and brothers food and nourishment. 

And by the sixth year of war, the mothers of the earth were exceeding with woe, for their youngest children were soon to be trained as soldiers to be sent off in war, and the mothers did say to the kings of the earth. 'Verily, thou must end this war lest there be no new