"Leah, my darling child, please, bring a cure to this world. It is the only thing I ask of you. Please?"
"Mommy...?"
Leah's mother grasped her daughter's tiny hand, taking in her final breath and smiling before all life left her eyes as the virus took her life.
Leah was still for a moment, seemingly unphased before the first tear ran down her cheek. Then another. And another. They kept coming and soon, it had seemed as though she could have been trying to refill a river.
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Tree of Health
FantasyThe tree of health gives cures for all but is only accessible to those who seek it. The tree is located in a remote mountain area, the same area that Leah happened to live in. After the death of her mother and her father leaving her to die as well...
