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"Mama!"
Autumn ran into the bedroo at her "Ma?" Autumn ran up to her mother and hit her hard on the ar at the bed She took a step toward the bed but Autumn shoved her back
"Come here now, Autumn Come to your uncle Blessed"
Autumn looked him dead in the eye and said, "No You’re a bad man Go away Leave us alone"
"Don’t be afraid of power, Autuether to where you’ll be surrounded by people ill value you, ill help mold you into what you’re meant to become Your mother doesn’t understand, she never will She’s common, unimportant, merely shackles to be cut away to free you" He extended his hand to her, the thick veins bulging ly
Autuain, "You’re horrible! Letheron her hand
Blessed looked bewildered "You’re an airl, Autumn--you can look at me and still you can resist ht into his eyes He then spoke in his natural voice, higher and sharper, with a kind of a country whine, "You’re really looking at me, aren’t you? Well, it hter I couldn’t stymie Martin either See, you don’t knohat you can do because your ; she can’t even accept you for what you are, what you will beco road to travel I i real soon now We have to go"
Autumn didn’t move
"You will come with me or I will have your mother hurt herself Look, she wants to, all I have to do is tell her to pull the trigger"
"No!" Autu un held out in front of her now, straight at Blessed She looked vacant, like she wasn’t there Autumn shook her mother’s arm hard "You took ht if you come with me If you don’t, I will make her kill herself"
Autumn closed her eyes
"Open your eyes Stop that foolishness What are you doing? What--?"