Bloodsong
“she said, the words cutting unexpectedly on their way out. “He was gone before I was born. No one is certain what happened to him. He could have been killed. He could have run off. He worked for the Resistance, so it could have been anything. My oldest brother was next. He was walking me home from school. He was shot and killed in front of me.”
A hard knot was forming in her stomach “How old were you?” Aleron asked.
“Twelve. Jai was just sixteen. But that neighborhood is rough. Camden, where I ...grew up, where I live even now. Those things happened all the time there. They still do.
“My mother we lost when I was seventeen, to cancer. There are no doctors, you know, when you’re poor. She kept working until she couldn’t walk any longer. For us, my brother and me. And then Dev… I lost Dev to the Resistance last year, to the government soldiers. They brought his body to me. There were witnesses. Not that it mattered by then. He was dead. Like the rest of my family. This is why I came to you.MoreLess
A hard knot was forming in her stomach “How old were you?” Aleron asked.
“Twelve. Jai was just sixteen. But that neighborhood is rough. Camden, where I ...grew up, where I live even now. Those things happened all the time there. They still do.
“My mother we lost when I was seventeen, to cancer. There are no doctors, you know, when you’re poor. She kept working until she couldn’t walk any longer. For us, my brother and me. And then Dev… I lost Dev to the Resistance last year, to the government soldiers. They brought his body to me. There were witnesses. Not that it mattered by then. He was dead. Like the rest of my family. This is why I came to you.MoreLess
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