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The door creaked open and Dahlia entered, her face solemn and her eyes red-rimmed. She closed the door behind her, hesitating as she watched him....
Late that night, the house was silent. Everyone had gone to bed. Dahlia moved silently down the stairs, a bowl in her hand and a blanket over her...
She didn't look back. (Zoop?) * * * He watched, his eyes alight with curiosity. There was almost a childlike fascination in his gaze and he...
"You had a choice," she replied sharply, turning away from him. "You had so many choices. You just made the wrong ones." She headed for the...
"So you tried to steal from my family instead," she replied incredulously. "You didn't want to ask, so you decided to just take instead." She...
She crossed her arms, her shoulders slumping as she studied him with furrowed brows. "You could have told me," she said, her voice hushed. "I...
She stared at him, her brows furrowed. "Why?" she asked after a moment, her voice shaking. "Why would you do this?" * * * He laughed, his...
Tears might have filled her eyes, but that wasn't right. Dahlia didn't get sad. Sadness was not something she did. As he watched, she quickly...
Hours passed. Occasionally, one of the tribe would come down the stairs and look at him, but this seemed more curious than anything else. Finally,...
The girl glared before turning to leave, heading for the stairs. *** “It’s also rude to be hostile, but you don’t see me complaining, do you?”...
She bound his wrists and tugged him back through the exit, going deeper than the cellar into a holding cell, dark and musty. “Just... stay here...
She didn’t even look at the bag, pulling a thing of twine from her belt. “Put your hands behind your back,” she said, her dark eyes sharp and...
Her eyes glinted and she stepped forward. “Unlucky, thief,” she commented slowly, walking towards him, careful to keep the exit blocked....
The jars clinked in his bag as he turned to leave. A woman was standing there, her eyes narrowed in suspicion. “Who are you?” *** He laughed...
The tribe was in the nooks and crannies of the walls. The place he was looking to infiltrate was a cellar in the floor; it contained many of their...
-18- Dahlia was asleep on a ledge one sunny day, stretched out in the light coming in through the window. She was down in the kitchen, the humans...
(Zoop?)
She gave him a cheerful wave. "See you in a week. Thank you for coming to see me."
"It'll be over in a week," she said absently, looking over her shoulder. "You should probably go..."
"Don't worry," she said lightheartedly. "They don't know about you, so they just think that I fell asleep somewhere."
