her eyes. Supporting herself on the wall, Jennifer set aside the body on the floor.

ched her stomach, the feeling in her stomac

he thought that nothing would ever take away the feeling of joy an

any students, and a handful had been

of her fellow soldiers was som

resources, but an ambush was not a planned

eyes on the lifeless bodies of people they'd gone to military school with,

aced. It snatches the people we care about most

m, she stumbled on the suitca

oor. Her legs kicked the bags violently, frustrated and ang

nsion. As though a switch had flipped inside of her, she stood

he had loved to imagine it as a color room. Presumable a happy place where

he sighed defeated as she wiped away the te

e looked down the floor that had been beautifully decorated with marble

e took only made her sink further into the world

irs, stepping on the furry carpet that seemed to be the

she took a v turn toward

as the person behind the cctv camera grew c

bottom of the kitchen drawer, picking th

n in the company of a Maya that was not yet dep

ouldn't leave her, that she'd be her best

the stuffed compartment as the smell of an e

side, she began looking

a pile of furniture plac

emerged outside

as she carried it away f

weapon on her shoulder as she a

screamed, her heart aching at the belief that her best fr

s why she had even joined the military in the first place. A

alive. Perhaps if she had read the signs, and noticed her peculiar uneasiness du

ome save her, she would still have been alive. All she did was yell

erself. She had people at home, even though mom was ne

urage and made it to the top of the staircase. She h

igned the the sharp metal part of the axe towards the

the now useless piece of fr

ting screechy sound from the movement, indic

hile she entered. Locating the socket at the side of the wall, she

ivate and secretive part of her best friend and her brother? To

into the house so quickly? How was she not able to catch a scent of him even before he entered. Their house was always cloaked, making sure that only

estfriend and facing this calamity was def

ha of their kingdom.. The reason th