16: Loved?

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The sky was black and storming, rippling mercilessly with the lightening. In the middle of the night, adolescent Ember was beside her father in her cave. She was crying heavily when she told him, "Daddy, I don't understand..! Why don't others love me? Why did my uncle hurt me all the time? What is it about me that's so horrible?"

Her father told her, "Others fear you. They are afraid of what they don't understand. But I'm not afraid of you."

Ember wiped her eyes and face, drying the tears. "Y-you love me, right daddy?"

Pushing his daughter over onto her back, he hissed in her ear, "Of course I love you, baby. I love you very much..."

As Ember's soon to come, ear shattering screams for help approached the echo's of the cave, thunder drowned out any and all noises emitting from the dark place Ember called home...

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