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"I heard that," she snapped "Watch what you say around them You don’t want their first word to be a curse And watch your emotions around theer or frustration"

I whirled to face her "Then why the hell do you want me to pick him up! Aren’t I safer over here?" I stalked to the other side of the roo hard I hated the way my muscles wanted to obey and pick up the delicate bundle of baby, but I didn’t have it in th

I’ll kill him

I’d be responsible for yet another death AnotherDo It

Zel huffed, looking like a queen in her blue nightgown "Don’t ain Don’t think I won’t do it You know you’ll have no choice and you need to make this your choice, Roan" Zel’s face softened "I trust you; otherwise I wouldn’t tell you to do it As much as I love you, I wouldn’t let you near Vasily and Vera if I thought you’d hurt the knees It never got old hearing that she lovedbullshit I also loved the way she said their na the fa me whole for the first tiht

I had to do it I had to facemy jaw, I moved back toward the basinets and bent over the tiny newborns

Withhands around the thick blue blanket and scooped up the lightest hu I’d ever held

Kill Sever Bleed Devour

The conditioning crescendod throughball

No!

Myand terrified My jaw ached, battling the conditioning, forcing ile It was utterly dangerous forhily, little face The blue hat made him look like a shrivelled up old man

You’re h

Kill Sever Bleed Devour

"Support hihed quietly "He’ll feel unprotected at ar to do toto face her, I demanded, "You have hi him You can do this"

Kill Sever Bleed Devour

My head shook wildly "No I can’t It’s back It’s worse I don’t--I can’t--"

Zel didn’t say a word, but her eyes gave me the final order

Cuddle him

How the hell could aainst my body and pressed him into the crook of htless form and barely there warmth hit my body, my world ended

Wolves howled

Guns fired

Swords clashed

A vortex consu my brain apart I hurled down and down into dark recesses ofme from hospital rooo too far, Roan Dinner isn’t far away, and your father will be ho up to play with her red curls, I nodded "I proht the apocalypse on my entire family

Trees creaked

The ht, the conditioning

Kill Sever Bleed Devour

I’d never be free I had to die I had to kill myself

"Roan! Roan!"

Withbells echoed in my ears

Louder and louder

Bells and chimes and trumpets

Every brainwash, every bar and chain I’d been trapped in started unravelling

Faster and faster, padlock after padlock

Every inch of my past and torture ceased to exist Every switch and order that rated

Wind whistled

Ice prickled

Freedora atstill, barely breathing in case it was all a drea filthy and tainted in my mind erupted into flames and dissolved into ash

Sun shone

Butterflies flew

Laughter filledan A world I never hoped dreahts were my own and nobody could strip them from me

The vortex that’d stolen me from hospital to past dumped me back into reality But it wasn’t the same one as before It wasn’t the saalaxy