His breath was caught in his throat. Wiping the blood trickling from the gashed forehead with the back of his hand, he ran down the neighborhood alley lined with impossibly high walls surrounding the houses. Due to his gasping breaths through his mouth instead of his nose, his parched throat felt uncomfortably sticky "Huff... hah..." T...
His breath was caught in his throat. Wiping the blood trickling from the gashed forehead with the back of his hand, he ran down the neighborhood alley lined with impossibly high walls surrounding the houses. Due to his gasping breaths through his mouth instead of his nose, his parched throat felt uncomfortably sticky "Huff... hah..." The fear that rough hands would grab his hair and throw him to the ground at any moment lent strength to his limping legs. As he ran down the wide alley, kicking off the smoothly paved asphalt without a single groove, only his heart pounded violently in the terrible silence of the familiar yet unfamiliar neighborhood. The identical house walls, empty alleys, streets with no passersby - it all blurred into one. The pebbles digging into his bare feet awakened hi
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