Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.
Strange the Dreamer
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She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.
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