The Fear Trials (2013)
“I pass a group gathered in the middle of the street. For a second, I’m terrified it’s Peri. That she’s dead, and it’s my fault.
I shove my way to the front, my heart in my throat. But it’s only a boy being beaten to death by Initiative guards, his back a bloody mess. I wonder what he did wrong. I wonder why I care.
I run up and down the street, calling her name, checking in every alleyway, every building, every dark, shadowed corner that Trace might have chosen to hide in. I check again. She’s ...nowhere to be found.
Finally, when the rain comes, I find myself sitting on the steps of our old apartment building. Staring up at the rain as it pelts my face. Wishing I’d never met Trace. Wishing the man that killed Anna had killed her, too.
“I thought I’d find you here.”
My father. He sits down beside me.
“You’re too much like me, Meadow. You screw up and you want to redeem yourself, and it’s a pattern that never ends. Someday it will destroy you.”
“So let it,” I say.MoreLess
I shove my way to the front, my heart in my throat. But it’s only a boy being beaten to death by Initiative guards, his back a bloody mess. I wonder what he did wrong. I wonder why I care.
I run up and down the street, calling her name, checking in every alleyway, every building, every dark, shadowed corner that Trace might have chosen to hide in. I check again. She’s ...nowhere to be found.
Finally, when the rain comes, I find myself sitting on the steps of our old apartment building. Staring up at the rain as it pelts my face. Wishing I’d never met Trace. Wishing the man that killed Anna had killed her, too.
“I thought I’d find you here.”
My father. He sits down beside me.
“You’re too much like me, Meadow. You screw up and you want to redeem yourself, and it’s a pattern that never ends. Someday it will destroy you.”
“So let it,” I say.MoreLess
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