What Did I Do?

Sephiroth · 08-24-2024, 10:25 AM

Alone. Lost. Unwanted. The young boy slowly walked over the dry, cracked ground. His short-lived bright blue gaze was dull and lacked life. Dark paws carried him as he walked and stumbled through the riverbed, his chest aching as it tried to heal the damage that had been done. He didn't understand it. Didn't understand why things happened the way they did. He was just a kid... What had he done to deserve this? Maimed. Cast out. Chased away. Exiled, they said. But he didn't know what that meant. All he knew was that after his ordeal, he had tried to return home and each time they hurt him more, refused to let him stay, and the last time he tried he woke up here. He didn't know where here was...but it was lonely and desolate, no companions other than the prickly cacti that he had already accidentally stumbled into and now carried sharp, long spines in his shoulder that he couldn't pull out.

His feet burned and ached. He was thirsty. His chest hurt and the white of of it was stained red. How many days has he been out here? He wasn't sure. But he was almost certain he wouldn't last much longer. He hadn't been taught to hunt. Didn't know where to find water. Didn't even know which way to go that might lead him to salvation. Suffice to say, they had left him to die out here.

His lip trembled a bit with the start of a whimper as he walked over toward a clump of scrub bushes and hunkered down beneath the little bit of shade they offered. Curling into himself, wincing from the pain of the thorns and the wound on his chest, he decided he might as well just accept his fate.

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What Did I Do?

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