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posture radiating a contempt so profound it

pack resources we just squandered

oat too raw and swo

word a stone thrown at me. "You bring nothing

useless, well

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your death could somehow restore what was lost, I would not lift a finger to stop it." He glanced toward the window, his jaw se

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g left of him. N

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closing around the silver I

with a single

bedsheets-a sudden slash of

it sideways. It crashed to the floor between us with a loud clang, a momentary obstac

n and ran from the roo

doing?" a young O

in front of Julian

er?" the nurse scolded my brother

th rage, and he shoved the

eeing shape down the s

the heavy steel door to th

ed my hair across my

edge of the gra

nsignificant specks of

oken body so Tanya coul

reath and stepp

roared in

fall was brutally cut short-a jarring screech of metal on metal as m

in the air as my legs and

d metal grid, co

who was on the platf

his hands trembling as he gently crad

warm jacket and wrapped it

spill down my cheeks. I had endured so much from my ow

kly winched back towa

imbed out

his grip careless

, and yanked my head back, ignoring my cry of

he side, and blood t

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