He ran.
From their angry shouts and their hard fists.
From their eyes, full of disgust and words spat with hatred.
Into the woods.
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His bruised chest rose up and down, and his bare feet kept moving despite the sting from the rocks embedded in the earth.
He didn't look back.
He couldn't look back.
No tears threatened to spill from his eyes, even though his breathing hitched each time he inhaled.
A bruise had started to form on his cheek.
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He didn't see the root in front of him, his eyes were nearly closed from exhaustion, he let out a cry of surprise when he fell forwards, gaining a twisted ankle.
It hurts.
That was the first notion he registered as he clutched his foot.
It was only then, sprawled on the forest floor that everything started to crash down on him.
The beatings, the shouting, the cold nights spent huddled outside.
"The two of you were supposed to be my parents....."
His voice was quiet before tears started dripping from his cheeks, and he started to cry.
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"Hey!"
A small voice rang out and he felt his shoulders being shaken.
"Can you hear me? What's wrong?"
It sounded like a girl, perhaps his age, he could barely see more than a silhouette of the child in his delirious state, and from the squinted view caused by the bruises which had formed around his eyes.
"Ughhhhhh...."
He tried to brush off her grasp on his arms, but he was too weak to do anything but lie there.
"I'm going to get help okay? Please just respond, just anything!"
Panic sounded in her words before something was tucked over his body, maybe a haori.
The sounds of footsteps died away, and the cry of birds in the canopy above rang in his ears.
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