Chapter Song: "Gladiator" by The Girl and The Dreamcatcher
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My legs wobbled as I forced myself to stand and face her- her face a mask of shock.
My heart pounded from the terror of the memory- I knew she could hear it.
My mind wanted to sleep, it was tired- and it knew what would wake it back up.
My eyes were glass, cold. The cracks let through the tears- they left matching tracks.
And all she did was sigh. Sigh and furrow her eyebrows. She stared a moment, not moving, no threats bubbling from her lips. The silence just spread and intensified.
She was the one to puncture it.
A whispering voice- soft for the first time. I'd never heard her voice be so bogged with emotion that it broke her. "I'm so sorry, dear..." She stood and I t
