Tales From the Old New Land - Century 2 - Generation 7 - The Children of Babel - Opening Paragraph

And the war did rage for seven plus 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 innocents as rain. Rulers of men wished to preserve their men as chattel, yet their chattel lay in hills as carrion; their blood turning grains of sand into forest, their flesh turning all that lives into plague.