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What Is Longing?

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Longing As Maura Stone walked across the marble floors, she contemplated the upcoming confrontation with her employer. Or should she say, her captor. Before turning the bronze door handle, she paused, took a deep breath, and prepared herself for her next mission. Knowing that Mr. Ebony despised being caught off-guard, she decided against barging in and knocked. “Come in!” She shuddered at the sound of his sinister, low, and foreboding voice, but without completing his bidding, she would never be free. With one last deep breath, she turned the handle and entered the room. “You wanted to see me, sir?” “Agent 43. How good of you to come so quickly!” “I finished my assignment early, sir. I was hoping to receive my next mission immediately.” …show more content…

To her surprise, one of the trails had a sign that read: Do Not Enter For Your Own Safety! Always the adventurous one in her family, she pondered the sign for a minute then decided to explore that path first! At the end of the path, she spotted what looked like a small black pole. Upon further examination, it turned out to be a lever. She pulled it to an upright position and before she knew what was happening, she was plunged into a tunnel in the ground! She had fallen for a few minutes, then dropped into a large room with marble floors and a large black desk with a chair in the center of the room. As she walked closer to the desk, the chair swiveled around, and seated in the chair was a pale, thin man with a withered body and a gray scar running down his right cheek. To her surprise, the man had stood up and declared, “My name is Mr. Ebony. I have been expecting you.” Suddenly, the room went black and a cold hand smothered her screams, dragged her back through a door, and threw her into a sack! A few weeks later, she was informed that, because she had found her way into the underground hideaway, she must promise to do three things before returning to her life with her family. First, she must promise never to tell anyone what she had been doing while she was away, second, she must fulfill three years of service to Mr. Ebony, doing whatever he wished, third, she was required to return to Mr. Ebony once a year after her release to complete one assignment. If she

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