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The burn in my scalp chased away the icy tears on iven up the moment a bullet slammed into the love of et it

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"My brothers are dead How does that

"Answer me, cunt! Tell me how much you don’t want

I care about nothing

Jethro was gone I’d never seen anyone die before Never been to a funeral or witnessed a pet succumb--even my own mother just vanished rather than died My first participation in death and it’d been twome into a completely different person

The old Nila died the day she entered Hawksridge But this new Nila was a fading photograph, vanishing piece by piece while her lover bled out on priceless carpet

Daniel threw ht ht it I tu of rollercoasters and nausea take me, thanks to my broken brain Normally, it was the worst kind of punish reality

Vibrations in the carpet alertedhis face "Pay attention towith s

Pain crept over my senses--pain I didn’t want to feel because it reminded me I wasn’t dead…wasn’t free I was still here--in this pointless game of madness and deception

He’s dead

He’s dead

I’ainst ony

And with agony cahn My father I still had family who mattered People I couldn’t abandon

I’ up

Jethro and Kes had been h I’d made a promise to my ancestors to end this I now made a promise to them

I will kill your family

I will end this once and for all

My eyes shot wide Energy zapped into e I was stronger than this Hadn’t I proven as h? Each debt I’d endured, I’d evolved froirl into a woman

I’m braver than this