3. Life or Death?

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Days have passed and Raya is still in grieving from her parents' death. Raya sat herself down while looking at her parents grave at a small dark lake in gloomy light. After a long stare, Raya looked at her reflection from the dark water, feeling hopeless for what she could do for herself and the people she care about.

From a distance, a small but loud rock crumbling sound was heard from a high ground cliff

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From a distance, a small but loud rock crumbling sound was heard from a high ground cliff. At the edge of it, appeared a young boy in old and dirty clothes with some purple spots and small blooded cuts on his face and arms in watery tears of despair. While watching from the ground, Raya could already tell what he is thinking, ending his life.

The boy then had a time to think over his actions, he stepped back from the cliff before taking his next steps back into the woods. Before he could make his next step, a loud call was heard from which the boy went back to his shivers.

"Where are you, Sonny Boy?!" the man called, making the boy step back not before he could realize that one of his foot slided at the edge. Frightened for his life, the swayed his arms out, but gravity pulled him down to the lake.

No matter how hard the boy tried, gravity was a hard enemy to beat, especially in water. The boy tried swimming up for up air but he couldn't hold himself up any longer.  Still sitting down by her parents' graves, she watched the boy struggle while thinking of what she should do with him.

"Should I save him or should I not," Raya thought, thinking of the outcomes of the boy. "Should I save him or should I not? Should I save him or not?"

After a long struggle, the boy no longer could try to swim to save himself, having his body sink underneath the water. As his body sank, he could almost hear the silence in his heart until a splash occurred for someone to come for him ,which turned out to be Raya. She pushed her body against the water until she grabbed the boy before swimming back up.

From a long deep swim, Raya pulled the boy to shore and laid his body near her parents' graves. But while looking at the boy, Raya underestimated him. She only saw a poor and struggling boy with no self-esteem and looked like he was trapped with no exit from the suffering. Then, she grabbed the boy's arm to see his markings and placed her index and middle finger on the boys' wrist for a pulse until the boy woke up coughing.

When the boy finally woke up from his consciousness, Raya was about to take her leave just so the boy wouldn't get a look of her for wherever he came from. But the boy quickly saw her movement and her walking away.

"Wait" the boy called, making Raya turn her head back at him. "Why did you save me?"

"You're life is worth living," Raya answered. She then turned her head back to the woods and continued to walk away.

After her departure, the boy was only left with questions. "Who is she? Where did she come from? Why did she say that my life is worth living?" the boy wondered.

"Sonny Boy!" a man called slowly, making the boy get on his feet quickly. He then made his run back to his home, away from the man who is calling him while vanishing into the darkness.

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