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PROLOGUE

BLACK IS THE COLOR THAT is no color at all

Black is the color of a child’s still, eht--the one that traps you in your bunk, suffocating in another nightmare It is a uniforyour every breath, the low vibrations of the fence that stretches up to tear at the sky

It is a road A forgotten night sky broken up by faded stars

It is the barrel of a new gun, leveled at your heart

The color of Chubs’s hair, Liam’s bruises, Zu’s eyes

Black is a promise of tomorrow, bled dry from lies and hate

Betrayal

I see it in the face of a broken corief

I run, but it isIt is the button that should never have been pushed, the door that shouldn’t have opened, the dried blood that couldn’t be washed away It is the charred re It is the smoke

It is the fire

The spark

Black is the color of memory