Prologue The smell of burning flesh is repugnant. It lingers on every street corner, on every piece of cloth, in every shallow breath. The sky is red. Glowing through black clouds that are heavy with the ashes of those who have stopped screaming. More than three thousand tonnes of high explosive bombs are dropped. Again. Again. Again. Just like dust caught in a sunbeam, the ash swirls a slow descent. The air pulls in. Pauses. Pressure building. The blood in your veins almost recoils, your brain bruised in your skull. A moment of vertigo. Then nothing but noise. Loud. Angry. Ringing. And pain, so much pain. Screams rise, the crescendo approaches. Hellfire rips through the buildings, the sky, the people, your heart. This city is a firestorm. …show more content…
His opalescent eyes looking at her, and Klara looking everywhere else. Staring out the window, she saw in the corner of her eye his lips twitch. ‘Walther--' ‘--What father?' ‘What was it he said?' ‘I don't know, what?' ‘Something,' he says as Klara sighs, ‘something idiotic. Oh. So peaceful. It was something…‘ ‘Oh leave it, papa.' Klara shifts her gaze from him to the window on her left. ‘It was his medic thing. You know Klara. Don't say you don't.' ‘'First, do no harm.'' As Klara told him, she heard Walther saying it to her, young and bright, while he fixed her finger a splint. ‘First, do no harm!' He laughs, ‘Ah that was it.' he laughs again. Klara doesn't respond. Instead, she looks down at the broken wicker and starts to run the sharp edge under her thumb nail. ‘What nonsense. A man. He comes to you. He puts a barrel to your head. He says,' he coughed, tendrils of spit hanging from his lips as he pulled a handkerchief from his pocket. Klara pushed herself deeper into her chair. When he had finished wiping his lips and stuffed the kerchief back into his trouser pocket, he continued. ‘Tells you he is going to put that bullet in your head. Any decent man should turn, fight, take that man down. You do not ‘'do no harm'', you make sure you are the toughest. He never did. ‘ Klara feels her stomach contract. She can't be bothered to tell him again, that is not what it means. She starts to ram the piece of wicker harder into her nail. Siphoning out the rising
Louis gets their door open and lays back onto the couch, sighing when his back gives a satisfying crack. His bones have all been feeling very achy as of late.
“But look MJ. It doesn’t stop there, it only gets deeper, son. The reason you never knew about your daughter and why Havannah never brought her to see you is because Papi told Havannah to lie to Marlorana, to tell her that her father was dead. I highly disagreed with that because even though you have a lot of time over your head, you still could've been a part of your daughter’s life. You know, with visitation and all. But Papi kept pushing the issue and eventually Havannah and I both gave in.
“Kaylee come and join me, I am about to watch the best show in Canada.
Luna agreed, “She has always been a very hard working lady and she did it on her own. She is admirable.” Taking a moment to think of a better reply, Luna returned, “As a family, my great grandparents were our true Heroes. Would it not have been for them we would not have moved or have what we have today.”
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“Okay so we found the bullet, but we need to get it out before it causes more bleeding, so I’m gonna give you some medicine to go to sleep, and when you awake you will be bullet-less and all bandaged up.” The doctor said.
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scene to you, the sun has now disappeared and darkness has taken the sky, but the city is light with bright orange light. The heat from blaze of a fire from the riots are spreading wildly. Sirens and lights are flashing, as Baltimore firefighters battle a three-alarm fire at Gay and Chester Streets in East Baltimore. The water from the fire trucks leak onto the ground branching off like rivers on the road. The fire I see it as an inner burning or the silent cry of the oppressed, the water in the streets the tears from the faces of the oppressed, as they watch their city burn and their loved ones cry for a savior that may never come.
Etim stares at her with an unreadable expression before his eyes drift towards me. I blink a few times before closing the huts door. “Besides giving Soph her bag. What are you doing here Etim?”
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