Runaway reader

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It had only been a few days and without the food Yoshax brought you you'd probably be dead or close to it. The people you once thought to be your companions were quite literally treating you like a slave, they even tried forcing you to drive one time just so they could drink some beer they stole. Luckily for you Yoshax always seemed to be there for you weather it be protection or food with him you where safe. Your companions were now people you'd never see yourself accosting with but here you are. There was only one day Yoshax didn't show up and that was the worst day. You companions didn't hesitate anymore and acted on impulse witch left you with many bruises and in some serious cases minor bleeding. When Yoshax has returned and say you in the state you where his face told you that he was ready to kill but you pleaded with him to spare them. "I don't know why you'd want to spare them!"
-they're my ride and if you do anything they might turn me for the reward then flee..
"Your not getting turned in. Not if I can help it."
-just please don't hurt them
"..your not safe here. I don't know what kind of ties you have to them that you don't have to me but you should be able to tell your risking your safety."
Yoshax was right, you even had a new look to match which consisted of sad tiresome eyes, a bruised face and body, a broken nose and wrist, and a ever changing deprived of nutrients body.
-fine I admit I'm not in the best place right now but
"Not in the best place!? Not in the best place!? Your basically being abused!"
-can we please not have this conversation right now
"No! We NEED to have this conversation right now. They're manipulating you!"
-but they
"You can't expect to help people who don't want help. They're actively mistreating you and your letting them."
-but
"Listen I know it's hard but you need to get yourself out of this toxic 'friendship' before your hurt anymore, they already physically hurt you whats next? Mentally? Emotionally? I care about you weather you decide to believe it or not and I'm not about to let some privileged brats mistreat you." You didn't reply but a part of you knew he was right while the another part of you still had hope. You just told yourself you had to be strong even though you knew deep down inside it never be like the old days.
-Ya'know i remember when we just sat and watched the locals torch a pile of wood each year.. then the year we visited..
"Ah yes you found out they were burning foreign goods on account of them being capitalist or communist."
-everything that country lost.. they lost it in those fires.
"I guess, but they like to declare neutrality remember? So strict to the point where they wouldn't take imported goods because one might consider them taking a side."
-Yaknow when I lived there it was different..
"How so?"
-well before they found out I had powers everything was relatively calm.. not a single worry
"So your still holding onto those memories huh?"
-why wouldn't I?
"You probably don't know this but your friends do.. your old country, they burned your homes and didn't care to spare your families either." You couldn't reply, this news had taken a toll on you. Your family.. everything you had ever known had burned by merciless tyranny trying to find 'justice'. While you were in deep thought you hasent realized your companions had stopped in a bridge overlooking a river.. they were yelling for you to get out of the car.