Day 10 - Hours Past Dawn

We hiked for hours. I was at the point where I didn't even think this magical place that James had told us about wasn't real, and we were already dead.

Then we came by it. Nestled between the waters edge and the forest was a cracked in the ground, opening to a space just tall enough for me to stand, where James and Gabriel would have to crouch.

We started to set up, placing out our materials. We were all majorly exhausted, so we all crashed the second we could.

The days all seemed to run together, all I knew now was killing or dying. I almost hoped I wouldn't make it back, so my father would only have to remember me as the powerless, weak girl who hadn't yet been broken. But I knew he would watch everyday.

The same reasons I have to live, are the same reasons I need to die here.