Outcast of the Unions

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ing strangled by my father. I was tired but didn't want to fall asleep. Ainsley stared out the window as we drove on. I could only imagine what she was thinking. Alfie seemed nice, but still, I didn't know how much I could

you drove across the border you drive into the words and it counts how many people were in each car and it has the number of people to the side of it. Once we pass it I look

uh," I hear

states to get hit by Union's bombs and it hasn't been the

I ask eagerly in m

utcasts hide out there. It's no longer on the map so nobody can find us. It used to be a ski mountain lodge but that all chan

im. I can hear him laugh a l

me see her body covered in dirt and mud with scratches up and down her arms, which were bare because of her ripped shirt and short sleeves. I know Ainsley tho

kiing. Both of us were skiers and excelled at both sports, but tonight when we were done with dinner, and my mother put us to bed, as I dozed off Ainsley shook me awake and I heard the sound of a death scream. We both ru

horror as my father slammed his sword in my mom's side.

d the others were filled with pain and sorrow. One word formed on her lips as she mouthed it, "Run." That'

ible memory out of my head. "How much longer?" I a

can't sleep, but I was exhausted and soon found my eyes getting heavier and he

dy awake. I stretch and get out of the jeep. The place looks vacant. It looks huge and we were under an awning that is made out of logs. I shiver because snow covers the ground and I just realized something, can dad foll

d before us with a wood ceiling and a stone floor. A hallway leads down each way where you walk in. A statue of a bald eagle stoo

veryone?" A

sing his arms looking around, "it is Friday, so people will be going to sc

I ask. Ainsley looks at me sternly sayi

the side of his body as he says that. "I would like you two to meet someone." He walks over behind the bear where a high ceiling was and furniture like couches and chai

thy," Alfie says. Th

, but what really scared me is she has a long scar running from the top of her eyebrow to the bottom of her cheek.

seems just

ket with a belt the same as Alfie's. A gun was swung around her back and she wore leather boots. Weapons were hanging around her hips and I knew o

e murdered their mother who was an American. They are also Americans who survived. I found them on the border of Georgia a

insley tense up, were we going to have to become runaway, living on the streets begging for food, just waiting for som

younger than them. Why can't w

what we are or what we do, and they don't know how to fight." Sergean

ey blurts out. I look

hrough tonight I highly doubt anything scares her anymore, let alone some lady. "Your training will take years to complete," she

interrupts. She pauses and stands

ats slowly and steadily so he hears it all. "Yo

feeling they will become great soldiers." Sergeant Alex looked at him then down at us. I step out from behind Ainsley and stand up straight, showing her I'm not afraid. Carson's expression softens a little and she sighs, "Alright,