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ra's

years

lled our small kitchen a

am different from the

even though my hea

was cutting his pancake

n coming for months and I

" I asked while pouring o

me with bright eyes that

cess. I nudged him a bit b

lowed

, that's why he flew thou

e me a d

hat thing my eyes does

ooled by my

they feel hot and Jimm

ach cle

it?" He demanded from

smart and too observa

stirring and there was not

him and spoke, choosi

icks in the l

ed a s

or you will be late fo

t M

oice, the one that usual

and took a

g more specific and defle

ouldn't tell me to eat?"

words that always made

," I answere

yes l

e? Did he have gold eye

at tigh

ted t

ade was the strongest

ade's eyes could go from gr

t Kade would have loved

had known of

I cou

only one w

th us?" He said with sad

it me hard like a wicked p

e year old that his fathe

t his father had chosen

o make choices that will h

e a hu

e that meant he couldn't

s if he understood ever

estions would be coming

that night six years ago

lked out of that hall an

I had packed my few b

e when I left pack lan

e and the braid he gave me

rtant thing,the secret g

wasn't

s sur

Milo far from the man tha

om the world where stren

again," Milo said, pulli

then that I had been st

d grown cold

y. I was ju

ed just as he finished h

his ability to pull me o

lways to

mommy," h

mply checked the clo

or we will both be lat

a sound

or the classroom teache

up from the table and r

to the brim with that soot

ith how much he looked l

t stride and the same way

ther, l

from the hallway as I gr

into the locked box in my

Milo to school and mysel

mal and almost human li

the door, I could not sh

constructed normalcy was

said, using his nickname.

w prophetic those word