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After Ray’s initial introduction to the group, they left him to explore the camp and settle in. It made him nervous. He had come up to the mountains for some epic confrontation with the people who had indentured him against his will and met with no resistance at all. They gave him a choice. Stay or go.
But he knew it wasn’t a true choice. He could disappear. Leave everything he knew over the past few years and find a new life in a new place. It wasn’t like he hadn’t done it before when everything had fallen apart. The first time, it left him with emotional scars that never faded. Memories that influenced every choice he made. This time, it would leave him with physical scars. The tattoo would remind him he was being hunted. Wanted for murder by the LAPD. A target of whoever Osip Kosbu
