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Feelin' Good
Jazlyn woke up in a strange, very small bed. There were odd noises and lights and machines. She started to worry when she realised she was in Mamu Carson's working place - bad things always happened here. But then she turned around and Ami was sleeping next to her, with Abu in the chair and Dr. Kav in the next bed. She remembered feeling sick, ( Read more... ) -
Sick
Jazlyn walked into the room where Ami, Abu and Dr. Kav were sleeping. "Abu! Ami!" She whined, trying to wake them up. Her chin and the front of her night shirt was covered in vomit and her usually curly, bouncy hair was stuck down to her forehead as she sweated profusely. Tears streamed down both cheeks. "Abu, please, I don't feel good." She ( Read more... ) -
"Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?”
She was sitting in the kitchen, laughing and playing with Immuta. Ami was making laurian. Abu was going to come home early and they were all going to eat it in the baranda. Then they were Wraith. She didn't see them come but they were everywhere. And they were eating her Ami, but now it was the new Ami. And Abu was there too and everyone was ( Read more... ) -
No-one to turn to...
It's been night-time two times already but she stays curled up, crying, and hiding under the bed. She's so scared that her hands haven't stopped shaking and there's no-one to talk to, nothing to do, other than cry. Her tummy stopped rumbling ages ago, she's gone past hungry now. But she knows she has to eat. Ami always said so. That makes her ( Read more... ) -
I was happy before this
The big alarm was ringing. Her whole life people had been telling her stories of the big alarm. It had been used once, a long time ago, when the Wraith used to come to eat them. The alarm would go off and everyone knew where to hide so they stayed safe. That was a long time ago, before Ami and Abu were born, even before Bari Ami was born. The ( Read more... )