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Chapter 5 “One of these days they will be forced to let me go!” Claire mumbled as she stared at the small photo on her night stand. She understood they wanted to protect her and that they were so overbearingly protective because their parents had died when she was a baby, but that was beside the point. No, that was exactly the point. She had asked her brothers what had happened the day their parents died many times, but both would immediately become somber and refuse to tell her, stating she was too young to know the heartbreaking details. Instead they had made up childish fairy tales. In them her father was always a great hero fighting against a villain worse than any book could describe. Her mother, innocent and pure, a princess of such grace and beauty the villain would have taken her as his own, had her husband not protected her so fervently. In every tale they painted a marvelous picture of her parents fighting again...
Intro He closed his eyes, attempting to focus on anything other than the thunderous pounding. With each thump, his mind raged with unquenchable fear. Panic boiled inside him, building and overwhelming his senses. How he wished he could escape it. How he begged his eardrums to explode so he would not hear the deafening, rhythmic beating that clouded his mind. Tension built. Never before had he experienced the torturous sound of dread. He shook his head violently. Nothing could be louder than the sound of his own heartbeat drumming in his chest as anxiety swelled inside him. A piercing scream cut through the air and forced him to cover his ears. He stood corrected. “I can’t stand here and listen anymore. There has to be something we can do.” Another agonized shriek ripped through the village, vibrating off the trees and echoing down the valley. Animals hiding in the shadows, fearing the tormented cries, scattered...
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