Run Aaliyah Run (New story by a new member)

RUN AALIYAH RUN

Prologue

Pain.

Some deal with it. Some don't.

Run Aaliyah Run!

And I ran. The voice-my guide- was seldom wrong. Seldom' taken with a grain of salt that is.

But right now I had no time to argue or deliberate. I simply obeyed and ran.

I ran in the dark. Always in the dark. Helter-skelter. Directionless. Aiming for a yet unknown destination away from here. Somewhere. Anywhere. Far, far away.

I ran. My feet bare naked. On streets overflowing with the rotting filth of humanity. My tender skin lacerated and torn to shreds. Yet I felt no pain. Indeed, I felt nothing at all.

I ran blind. My brain a confusion of sounds I had come to hate. I bumped into bodies some of whom grabbed at my tattered skirt. They let go when I screamed.

I ran. Away from the noise and the rough groping hands. From the barred windows and the locked doors. From the unbearable pain. I ran. I ran to freedom.

tbc

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Simi