Empty Promise

She gazed inside, horrified by the total devastation and emptiness. It was a massacre, as if a demon army had come by night to take everything in its path, leaving behind only an empty promise and meager scraps of a once wonderful thing. There was no silver lining to be found here, no happiness. How could this have happened? It wasn’t fair.

She asked for little after a night of slaying, and this is what she got? Well, what did she expect? Sighing dramatically, Buffy turned then yelled up the stairs, “Dawn! Did you eat all the Chunky Monkey again?”