08-26-2008, 12:25 AM
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indent Squeezing her shoulder, he continued to smile, almost sadly, and looked down at his feet. Even now, he was covered in scars and bruises, and felt less like the strong leader he had wanted to be and more like the boy he had once been. Lost, scared, running for his life. He kept running and scrambling because those ghosts were right behind him, the wolf with the crooked smile and the men who had come for his life so many times. Whatever he tried to be, he was never going to get away from those things. They haunted him like a bad dream, like his own shadow.
indent “Yeah,” he said, though it sounded like his heart wasn’t in it. “We’re gonna be okay.”
indent Squeezing her shoulder, he continued to smile, almost sadly, and looked down at his feet. Even now, he was covered in scars and bruises, and felt less like the strong leader he had wanted to be and more like the boy he had once been. Lost, scared, running for his life. He kept running and scrambling because those ghosts were right behind him, the wolf with the crooked smile and the men who had come for his life so many times. Whatever he tried to be, he was never going to get away from those things. They haunted him like a bad dream, like his own shadow.
indent “Yeah,” he said, though it sounded like his heart wasn’t in it. “We’re gonna be okay.”