“I had to take it, I had to!” I yell.
“You had a choice.” He snarls.
“I didn’t!”
“You always have a choice.”
He doesn’t understand. I couldn’t leave it. I had to take it, everything depends upon it.
“It’s everything we’ve worked for.” I say.
“We? There is no we! There hasn’t been since you killed Jacob!”
“That was an accident and you know it.” I state angrily. “Now. Let me go.”
“I can’t do ...
There was nothing left of him for he had become hollow. The world was coming to an end, he could see the smoke already. He was crumbling like dust. The lightness he had once shown was gone. But he was grinning. He knew when he fell, everything he had built would come down with him. So he laughed as he lit the match....
I hide in the dirt, under a log and bushes. My feet hurt but I don’t dare move.
I can’t let them find me.
I try to steady my breathing to not be heard by the seekers. I adjust my foot when a scream pierces the soundless night sky. I get up slowly, my joints aching from crouching for so long. I turn in a circle, listening. When another scream is lurched into the dark, I register it’s a girl and st...
