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Bad bad things, and he says, And you saved my life.

Bad bad things, and he says, And you saved my life.

Durch loz897 · 16 Dec 2023

But its good, its heavy.He has the momentary urge to bring it to his lips, like one of his uncles used to with a betting slip when it was neck and neck and his whole body was tense like the racehorses on the screen.He lets his hand dangle.He pendulums it back and forth once, twice, three times.The clang, when it comes, is so much louder than hed expected.The canister had hit just at the rim.The noise means the vessel cannot be full of water.Quickly, he does it again.Another canister, this one packed with matches against the wet.Now it seems like there must be someone there, someone making a stand.Some idiot calling the hurricane to descend on her.They come, quick, from around the camp.Roxy has time to pull a thick stump of branch off the tree, hurling it toward the oil drum to make one more bang and shout of metal before theyre close enough to see whats happening.The woman who was so nearly on her scrambles down through the branches of the tree in her rush to be the first to pull up whichever fool it is who thought they could stand against these forces.He stretches himself by the arms, feeling with his feet for the broad lower branch.Roxys doing the same.They drop down, hoping that the cover is enough to hide the shape of movement from the women in the camp.Stumbling through the marshy earth, Tunde risks one single look back, and Roxy follows his gaze, to see if the soldiers have tired of the empty oil drum now, to see if theyre after them.The drum wasnt empty.The soldiers are kicking it, and laughing and reaching in to lift out the contents.Tunde sees, and Roxy sees, as if in a cameras flash, what they have found.There were two children in the oil drum.Theyre lifting them out.They are perhaps five, or six.They are sobbing, still curled tight into balls as theyre lifted up.Tiny, soft animals trying to protect themselves.A pair of blue trousers frayed at the bottom.A sundress spotted with yellow daisies.If Roxy had her power, she would return and turn every one of those women all to ash.

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