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corner, he had no choice but to walk across the dead His feet occasionally disappeared into wetit to be round, then fell to all fours and coughed hard, a line of drool hanging from his bottom lip

His head pounded I have to keep going I need to get away fro like he’d puked out all of his energy behind him The smell of death covered him, and his ht

He passed under a huge wooden roof on poles The odour of death now mixed with shit and blood There were hundreds of people Some slept, while others stumbled around Most were naked on at least the top half, soroaned quietly Some sobbed

The closer he got to the front of the co becaether He could see the break in the here the gate was

A woman held her arms out toward him “Poor child You don’t deserve this fate You didn’t choose this None of us did”

Mara dodged around her

“Loveafter him Then she fell over and cried

I can’t stay in here I need to find the door

Mara came close to the corner The area was crowded These et picked He heard a muffled scream ahead Three men held a woman on the floor while another had sex with her Mara wanted to kill them all He put his hand under his shirt to feel the handle of his blade You all deserve to die He released his grip I can’t, not ’til I get back He passed around theth to look the other way I’ll come for you, so will the Beast All the Wretches will die

People slept around the sh the each tih space for him to slide in front of it He watched over the crowd for several minutes as they slept He couldn’t afford for anyone to be awake Sure nobody was, he knocked softly three times, waited, then knocked twice htly behind hiently took him by the shoulder

“It’s open,” a man shouted in front of him

The hand pulled hard, and Mara stumbled backwards onto the floor of the torch-lit corridor

The guard sla cunt”

The people in the coed on the door and shouted to be let in

The guard pressed his shoulder against the door “Get over here and slide the pins,” he shouted