The Truth
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I close my eyes, and wait for death to come. While I know I will wake up in my cell the next morning, cold and miserable, it is the stability of my situation that comforts me.
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Aurora is a Regenerative, a girl who can live and breath in water and will always come back to the world around her. The only thing is, the Council uses Regeneratives as punishment to those who have committed crimes against them. Through a glass box, each lie strikes her and brings her down, slowly giving pain to the Offender being accused. Each Trial brings another death for Aurora, and the pain of losing someone dear to the Offender. Aurora is enslaved to the Council for life, but is that really the truth?
"The Truth" is a novel about living a life of lies and setting others free from the falsehoods she has lived through, bringing everyone back to reality.
*note: has not been edited...you have been warned*
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