![]() ![]() The dark color ideal for blending into shadows.Īnother trick of being on the run involved finding a second-floor room with both front and back doors and no skeletons. There was no time to waste when escaping, so I wore my black travel pants and black shirt to bed every night. ![]() ![]() When you were on the run, the possibility of being surprised in the middle of the night was high. I didn't need to change since I would never sleep in nightclothes or without my boots on. Nothing else.įlinging my blankets off, I hurried downstairs. For what? My life? Yes, I live and breathe and exist. Three terrible years full of fear and loneliness. But in the midst of the chaos, no one listened to reason. A war that had been started by healers, who then spread the deadly disease, and refused to heal it. The horrors from the dark years of the plague were still fresh in the survivors' minds. Her family would thank me by turning me in to the town watch. One piece pleaded for me to save her, urging me to heal the girl with the bright smile and ginger curls. Tossing and turning on my thin mattress, I listened to her cries as they sawed through the floorboards and through my heart, cutting it in two. ![]() Her lungs were so full of fluid she'd drown in another few hours. ![]()
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