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I should have gone by now. I should be half way towards the countryside, far, far away from here. But I couldn’t bring myself to tear my eyes away from Madame as he bared the thick ropes, pulling with all his might, trying to bring them back. He was unaware that I sat within the depths of the trees, eyes heavily set upon the vortex in which Avni had just disappeared into.
It was hard enough to have lied to Madame’s face. It was ten times harder to lie to her of all people. But if I told her what I was really doing, she would never have let me go.
Or maybe she would have. And then she’d never let me back.
She wouldn’t understand that I had to do everything I could to get more information. She’d never understand that all these wrongs I was doing, all the restricted
