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I felt nauseous

"You enjoy killing," I ed to choke out "It doesnʼt bother you that youʼre taking away someoneʼs child or brother or mother" My voice broke over the last word

"You think I kill people? "

Instead of answering, I decided to gnaw a hole in my bottom lip

"How can you think that about an pacing along the forest floor "What about Jase? Do you think heʼs a killer too?" He stopped directly in front of me I shifted my body, ready to fend off an attack "And what the hell do you think youʼre doing out here with ritted aze instead of cowering, like I really, really wanted to "Are you a murderer?"

"That depends, are you one of those animal activist that believes meat is murder?"

"No" I was born and raised in the rural south Hunting is practically a religion

"Then, no, Iʼ about the chase and your prey"

"Rabbits ether"

"Rabbits and deer?"

"Rabbits and the occasional deer"

"Never a person?"

"Iʼm not a monster, Scout"

"What about homeless meth heads?"

"What about therabbed onto his shirt It srease

"Did you kill him, Alex?"

He brushed inal spot and sag back onto the trunk of the fallen tree "Does it round, the body of my attacker on top of mine