Chapter As soon as we came down the landing of stairs, I was immediately ambushed by my parents pulling me into a bone crushing hug. I grew teary eyed in their embrace, the feeling of both my parents holding me at a time almost feeling like a dream. My mother and father were together in front of me. Alive. When they pulled away, my father held my face between his hands, his eyes raking over me with a look akin to worry. “Are you okay?” I smiled weakly at him. “Yeah.” It was a lie but who really cared right now? I was just so happy to see my father alive. He looked slightly better than the lanky, beaten up man I had seen in the prisons of silver shadow. His eyes were alight and the overgrown facial hair was gone. Though he still hadn’t recovered most of his weight, he looked more li

