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Hope Dialectical Journal

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Chapter One "Again," She says. Her eyes are cold, hard and demanding. The beast limped towards me, its eyes glowing red like the color of my blood, adrenaline pumps quickly throughout my body, it charges, hooves clacking along the cold dirt floor, its shaggy fur dripping with warm crimson blood. My breath is fast as I leap towards it, dagger raised. It punctures the soft skin, tearing the flesh of its bony chest. I follow the pattern; leap, stab, tear, duck, roll, aim for thigh and roll again. It howls in rage and leaps at me, its claws outstretched, I hold out my blade as it crashes into it, the knife reaching its' now motionless heart. Another comes at me, wanting to seek revenge for its fallen brother. It roars, spikes flaring in and out of …show more content…

We walk down to the creek in comfortable silence, content to listen to the birds. We sit down to eat, munching on the delicious red fruit. I give some to Sir Weiss, he happily eats it. Jamy lies down, her eyes closed and the wind plays with her hair. I decide to get up and wash my hands in the clear cool stream. Weiss screeches out a warning, I am crouching on the edge of the brook, I whip around only to see three soldiers from the Laline Kingdom holding Jamy by the neck, a dagger to her throat, each breath cutting a little more into her skin. I growl at them and slide my blades out, I throw one, it sinks into the throat of the one strangling Jamy. She sinks to the ground stunned, I lunge at another, steel against steel rings out and sparks fly. I sink my knife easily past their soft amour into his lungs, I twist it to finish the deed. Red clouds my vision when I see the other solider cut Jamys throat, ruby blood spurting and softly raining onto the grass. I bellow and dive at him, my tears mingling with the blood from my other kills. I dig a blade into his stomach and screamed "Why are you here? What do you want?" His breath is ragged and he groans out," I was sent...sent by your

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