Thanks @miniature-tiger I love this idea of trying to tell a story in just 50 words! Here goes...
ESCAPE FROM TYRANNY
Travelling for days.
The smell of escape heavy on the breeze. A chill on the sea air like the incessant beating of a drum. A blood-red moon bleeds carnage upon my home, so we must away.
Hope had faded to invisible....
Then it appeared, humanity's last outpost, heavenly - the Island.