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ine as I watched my mother stare at me with

ice. "I know you think you are being clever

and that does not change just b

, but my mind was racing. What

a warning

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he things she had

amount to anything' had been replaced by

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breath, my che

re what you think about it. I do not care what anyo

but it did not reach her eyes.

en searching for? Do you think that little re

. "I do not care about what you

"And what is that, El

in the air, like a tau

. Not the one you or an

can escape all the things that make you... who you are?

back, my finge

ke this, I had ended up in a miserable

t, the memory coming back

ot back. "What is the wor

r eyes flickered to the door behind me, as

she fina

orever, Eliaca. There is no run

looding my mind. "What

s tight, almost mocking. "You

my heart poundi

t is coming. What ha

mind racing. This was n

r, something my mother wa

he said softly. "I will neve

reply, but the word

ver the window, and I felt

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d me, and I whipped a

one was

ing my head. Ha

ut I could see the faintest flicker of s

trying to say," I said, my v

to the life you chose f

the calm before the storm. "We will see," she s

ppeared, she turned and walked away, l

moment, replaying the c

ind, thoughts collid

ant by "what is

e know that

er, demand answers. But

not explain. Somet

, and I could not shake the feeling that my life was a

door, my hands shakin

of this house. I nee

stepped outs

end of the dri

but something about

red at the figure, the hairs on

the world had

l I could hear was the poundin

could not move. My feet

nd for the first ti

ran down

im before. At leas

ned with something I could not place, was

wa

did h

into the face of someone who knew far

I instinctively took a step bac

my name, his voice

w did he kn

hift around me, every

me to run, but my

id it feel like my entire l