a fear of falling

a fear of falling

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"We could just walk out in the middle of the night and never come back. I don't think they could care less, and it's not like we're fenced in, ya know?" Olam's tone is completely dry of emotion as he uses his knife to get a sliver of shit out of the bottom of his jogger. I managed to miss it on the trail but he wasn't so lucky. "Yeah, I know. But what we don't know is how far they're willing to go to keep us here. After all, they did go to all the effort of stealing us, raising us and training us for god knows what. There's gotta be some attachment on their part." Sarcasm is written on my upper lip, but a part of me is suddenly triggered. How far .. am I .. willing to go to get answers. We know only that there is something coming, not what, or when or why, just that we must be prepared to fight for our lives. *...*...* 160 kids were taken from their parents and placed in a village with only each other and a number of relatively normal, yet strict adult leaders named 'Heads', for an unknown reason. They know not where they came from, why they were taken 19 years ago or what they are wanted for. Only that they have been training in every field known to man since birth. Tanner, one of the 19 year olds has had it up to here ^, she wants answers and she will find them, whether it be from the Heads of her village or from someone on the outside. One thing all the young adults know is that they must stay alert and never stop asking questions. Just because they were practically born into this group of people, does not mean that this is where they ultimately belong. *...*...* Updates will be at least once a week, hopefully more. If I don't get another case of writer's block :P Just NOTE, that the perspective of the book may switch between characters at times and I'll always add the character by name at the top.
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"Hey, who are you?" I could tell he wasn't trying to scare him off while still trying to establish the fact that we could hurt him if we wanted to. "I was gonna ask you the same question," he replied. "But since to beat me to it, I'm Eli. I'm just a seventeen-year-old kid out here alone. Y'all seem to be in the same situation." His southern accent was thick but definitely not South Carolinian. It sounded more like he was from Alabama or Mississippi. "True. For how long?" "Four weeks. I ran away because of...circumstances," he said, trailing off on the last word. "Prove to us you're not dangerous," Marcus threatened. "Prove to me you're not dangerous," Eli countered. "I don't even know your names." "Fine. I'm Marcus, that's Peyton, Luke, and Aaliyah," he answered, gesturing toward each of us as he spoke. I could tell he didn't trust the guy, but he seemed good enough. He hadn't said anything to make us distrust him, but he also hadn't said anything to make us trust him. "Look, dude, I'm not trying to hurt you. I'm looking for something a friend told me about a few weeks ago. She said there was a whole network of teens out here, but there's a camp somewhere in Florida that gives them a place to stay. Secret, of course, and run by teens, but anyway, it seems safer than being out here and living off the land." "Wait, you mean there are more of us?" I asked. ☁ Three teenagers find themselves rejected by their families after they're all unexpectedly outed on the same night. With the help of their friend, they head to the streets in search of freedom and acceptance. Along the way they meet another boy, and there's more to him then they could have ever guessed. Follow each of them as they discover who they are, who they love, and more of their country's secrets than they could ever dream of in a thrilling trilogy told from all five points of view.

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