tomorrow is the game. level three. there's o many feelings rushing at me. what am i doing? everyone wants to go to the griffy territory with me but we quickly talk through why that won't work. i can't be caught for now so we will have to split up.
not only that but i have a meeting with my mom at the beginning of the level which will surely be about how to take out katie. all i can do is trust my mom. i haven't had any trouble with her yet. and i don't know what that means. the only thing it can make sure of is that she is not climbing up the ranks very quickly right now. the thought makes me smile. she deserves this. she deserves everything that's coming to her because of what she did to our people. she is a traitor just like her mom. i know it deep down.
my mother has done so much for this place and they have thrown it away like it were trash. i will have revenge for my mother and those before her. i will have revenge for my people. for what she did to my people.
the thought prickles the hair at the back of my neck. no matter how the game turns out it won't be good.
and so i spend my last hours in the library and in bed thinking through the consequences of the future. it takes me through the moments before the shuttle ride.
and then when i'm on the shuttle. i can see katie in the back staring out a window dreamily. i clench my fists. how did i ever think she was my friend? it burns. i know that i just repaired things with kally but that can never be the case for katie and i. we are always and forever destined to be enemies.
the future that i want is nothing like the future she wants. i don't have to look farther than how her mom deserted us to know how katie feels about alasia. how could the head of council not put their people first? in fact if i remember right she didn't even want to be here. she doesn't want to rule alasia. i've been trained my whole life to lead. to rule. to take over! that is what i was made for. that is what i was raised for. and that is what i will attain.
during the shuttle ride the others take account of the lakes. they tell me which one will be closest to us. which one to go to. things to remember. they go on and on. maybe they think this will help me somehow. i know it won't though. if a creature were to kill me i'd have nothing i could do. if the creatures don't want peace they won't have peace.
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the game
General FictionBOOK 2 WARNING: VIOLENCE/DARK THEMES/GORE/DEATH All of us come face to face with death in our lifetimes. Betrayal, lying, and the vulnerability of choosing our dreams over what others want from us. We never fit the plan, and that is what this book i...
