What on earth was happening?!
Why was this voice begging to be spared? And from what?!
“LEAVE US ALONE! WE JUST WANT TO LIVE!”
“No.” Another voice growled, low and menacing and frighteningly familiar, making me curl into myself out of pure instinct. “None of you deserve to live for what you did.”
“PLEASE—!”
And just like that, the voice abruptly cut off. All I could hear now was the gentle breeze whooshing through the air… although that might also have been the blood pounding in my ears. My entire body was wracked with uncontrollable tremors.
That was something I wished I would never hear again. Was it an echo or the past? Or was it something that had yet to happen?
“What was that?” I asked shakily, hoping that comforting voice would return to me. No matter how much I’d try to clear
