![]() ![]() “I don’t know.” It was barely a whisper, more the soft movement of his lips. “Do you think he would have loved you back?” You’re the only one who’s been kind to me in days.” He laughed bitterly. I swallowed thickly around the lump in my throat. There were no words of comfort, nothing I could say to make all of this better for him. ![]() It was no loss to me to have forsaken them. All those things Kai dreamed of-a career and wealth and physical possessions-were meaningless to my tribe. ![]() I had been taken and sold before I was old enough to nurture aspirations of my own, and even if I had been more Kai’s age, I came from a nomadic race of simple people. “There was so much I wanted to do….”Ī weight settled in the pit of my stomach as I looked at him, suddenly vulnerable and afraid and filled with a bone-deep sadness I didn’t know how to heal. Not anymore.” His eyes suddenly shone too brightly. ![]() “This is it for us, isn’t it? Unless we get sold, we’ll be here every day until we die-isn’t that what you’ve been telling me? No use hoping or planning for the future because we don’t have one. “That’s all I have now, isn’t it? Time.” He laughed humourlessly, and I frowned. “No.” I drew back, folding my arms together between us. “Is that what you want-to forget your past life?” ![]()
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