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"She died,"  a tender voice whispers into my ear.  I spin around to face Bage, his chapped lips only inches from mine.  "Parisa.  She's dead." That's when I notice the streaks staining Bage's cheeks, and tints of crimson splattering his eyelids.  How long has he been sobbing?  When is the last time he has caught even a minute of sleep?  Yet I do not even need to ask these questions, not really.  Because I already know ...

  I suppose I seem happy enough.  If you saw me on any given occasion, I would be joking around with my friends, smiling.  I would seem relatively normal.  All my clothes from the right stores; my hair straight and shiny; my  eyes wisped with mascara.  From the eye of any onlooker, I would appear fine and put together... All day long I fight back tears, forcing my facial features to radiate strength.  Courage.  Happiness.  Someo...

"Augh!"  Fig finds himself tumbling forward, his knee scraping mercilessly along the pavement.  It hurts.  He knows he is bleeding because he can feel something wet trickling down his leg, and the air is suddenly filled with the rusty, salt-filled smell of blood.  Something is not right... Fig grasps the black pavement with both hands.  His world is swimming in countless directions, making him dizzy and uncomfortable.  What used to be buildings, blue sk...

Brie Kids are everywhere. Some are tall, others are short.  They all range in build, from burly and heavy-set to petite and slender.  Brie had assumed she would fall somewhere in the middle, but she feels smaller and more vulnerable than ever before. It had only taken a few hours to reach her destination: Fiza.  All the while, she had been shoved, pushed, trampled on, and run over by stampedes of teenagers, all rushing to the same place.  Of course they had been rushi...

Brie "Please don't die..." Bail wraps an arm around her older sister.  Bail's cheeks are damp, her eyes moist with tears.   "Look," Brie points at the sunrise in the distance, "beautiful, isn't it."  The sky is splashed in an array of brilliant pink and violet.  For a moment her heart is in awe; all the tension boiled up inside of her slowly simmers away.  This is the same sunrise she has been seeing since she was...