Early the next morning

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My heart races in hopes of catching up to the rhythm of my feet. I left the house with only a backpack to hold supplies and a sketchbook. I don't know why the cries over the gate told me to. They said it was to be a gift, proof that I belonged to a creature in the woods. My current location is no longer in those thin woods, but outside beyond the cement walls a few miles down the road. It's too early for those fosters to know that I'm gone. They never wake up until late dawn, so I have 3-4 hours to make ground.

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