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I snapped back into reality. 

My eyes went wild. Rage broke my carefully crafted shell.

My friends were dying

How. 

I scurried around trying to find an answer. Any answer. 

Finally, after one long minute, I laid my eyes eyes on Zoey's half eaten tomato.

That had to be it. 

I was the only one who didn't eat the tomatoes. 

That was the only plausible answer. 

I look back at my friends limp figures. 

I could heal them, but at what cost?

Will I die? 

It is selfless, I thought, but then I reconsider. Is anything really selfless? 

I want them alive for my gain. 

No.

I shake my head. 

No.

No.

No. 

I must save them. 

They are better than me; they deserve to live. 

I reach over to the closest person to me, so Zoey.

Her body is so limp and feels so dead. 

I touch her and her body is barely warm. 

Barely alive. 

I take a deep breath and-- "Hey, she's alive!"

I freeze.

"Yeah, she must of healed herself."

"She doesn't deserve to have that."

The men come running towards me.

They're too fast. I could never heal them all before they get me. 

No.

No. 

No. 

This can't be happening.

I have to heal them. 

This is what my gift is meant for. 

I put all my energy in healing Zoey. 

But I'm not fast enough.

They already got me. 


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