Badlands.
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The rust colored sand packed into a canyon laid at my feet as I attempted to find my escape. The thick labyrinth of crumbling rock sprawled around me, I looked behind me, the wind whipped my hair back and I was met with more canyons that reach so high into the sky that it seemed to rip it open. Vivid colors spilling out to dance among the clouds. But beside the almost painful beauty of it all, all I could think was 'get out'
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Ivy has always wondered why no one ever goes past the town of Lawrence, so she and her brother Blaise decide to check it out. She knew all the stories, all the myths. But none of that could be true right?
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