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The Story:

I can never go back to the city, but my mind is still encased in its mortar, my heart pumping to its fast paced rhythm. However, out here, living in the hills, my lungs can breathe. I had never realized how hard it was to breathe before. It makes what I must do a little easier.

It’s so quiet out here. Desolate. Lonely. Where do you go when you’re hunted by the living during the day and hunted by the dead during the night?

“Hey, what are you doing up here?”

I don’t turn around. My face always ends conversation—the thing I long for the most.

“I’m… I’m just sightseeing.”
“Well, no one’s allowed up here. You need to go sightsee someplace else.”
“I’ve been most everywhere. Trust me, there’s nowhere else.”

He doesn’t say anything more for a few moments. I am starting to believe that I might could actually have a friend, if only for a brief time. But then, I hear the pumping action of a shotgun and feel the familiar tingle of its glare on the back of my head.

“I’m serious. Move along.”

What a terribly short conversation this has been. I turn to face him and see an attractive man who conjures up another longing from deep within me—love.

“You’re… You’re her.”

The wind howls between us, signaling my time to leave. He aims the shotgun at my heart from only a few feet away.

“Give me one good reason why I shouldn’t kill you right now.”
“I don’t have any good reasons.”
“Why are you out here?”

He may be the only person I’ve ever seen display a hint of pity for me, however subtle. But maybe that’s just what I want to see.

“The Lair. It isn’t far, and I owe you. I owe everyone.”

He lowers his gun but remains poised for a quick draw.

“The Lair? You’ll never make it there before nightfall.”
“I know, but… I’ll manage.”

I back step to the edge of the cliff.

“No, don’t… I mean, just… We can talk some more.”

If only we could.

“I figured it out. The only way to The Lair is by choice. I can fix this.”
“You don’t have to. I… We can learn to forgive you.”
“Thank you, but… They won’t. Tell them I’m sorry.”

I jump.

 

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