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I&039;M AWAY FROM THE slaughterhouse and the corpses and the flies and the stench now, and the land stretches out in front of rass shifts lazily fro sea The world is suddenly absolutely beautiful, cal and relaxed, revitalized and ready for the next fight It&039;ll be time to leave soon

I take a few steps forward, the blazing sun blinding rass and leaving a flattened trail behindhow close to the cull site this place is, it&039;s re, the land fro, only a handful of distant, parched trees daring to stretch up froround into the intense blue sky above

Wait What was that?

I hear so to think it was just the hen, a few yards ahead of rass where it had been hiding Virtually naked and desperately thin; I can&039;t even tell froslowly I don&039;t care who or what it is I know that I have to kill it

I start sprinting, totally focused on catching the s else He runs (I can tell from the way heturn to the left, ap between us increases, and I follow his trail through the flattened grass, around and around in a lazy arc until I end up back where I started The child disappears momentarily, and as I scan the horizon I see that up ahead of me now are the ruins of my hometown It&039;s been weeks since I&039;ve been here, but it&039;s almost exactly as I rely buildings are in stark contrast to the beauty of everything else There&039;s a steady haze of ss and clouds of dirty gray lying at street level like a heavy fog

I&039;ve coht of the child now, but the trail of traain The chase is getting harder now The air is scorched and dry, and I can feel the fierce sun burning the skin onforward, driven on by the thought of killing again My ed flesh froe noring the spiteful branches and thorns that slash atan e up on either side ofenough to finally block out the sun It&039;s hard to see anything in the sudden change froht to dark, and it&039;s ice cold in the shadows Disoriented, I start to slon The child I&039;ain-more than one person this tie crowd of people charging up the long straight street after h of them to fill the entire width of the road, but their true nuain, willingnow that I&039; chased, and every step takes ten tier has been replaced with fear, and the crowd&039;s getting closer Every time I look back over ap in the row of buildings to hter, even narrower road-and I take it,the concrete, shock waves shooting the length of one Can&039;t keep going

I stop halfway down the second street, unable to go any farther I look back, and the crowd is still surging after h that I can see their faces now They suddenly stop,an unexpected, cautious distance I sense they could attack at any moment, and I&039;enuinely afraid I look at the people at the front of the hunting pack, and I see that they&039;re liketo attack Why? Do they think I&039;ed? I open my mouth to try to explain, to try to le word I feel crushed, devastated, and huain They look at me with total hatred

I turn around to run and findEllis In disbelief Ievery step forith a single step back, then stops again when I stop

"Ellis," I start to say, ht you&039;d"

She throws herself athold of my throat I&039;round