Chapter 62 Hope

HOPE

HOPE IS NOT DEAD, but she is going to die.

He gave her something that knocked her out, and now she is awake and it is very clear, from the way that her hands are tied and her mouth is gagged, from the way that he dragged her here and left her behind the chapel, that he doesn’t plan on her being able to tell anyone about any of this later.

A thin line of birds hangs in the sky.

They are moving, but not, to her eye, forward. They seem to be hanging there, undulating, but waiting. Why?

Are they waiting for her?

A whisper of a breeze crosses her face, and she closes her eyes.

Who else is here?

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