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But I DID manage to make it to the halfway point on my nano!

SO have another snippet of it.



“What can we do?”

“Sit and wait.” Arria looped an arm around him. Her magic eater peered at him from the top of her head. “Can I do anything to help you I know you have to be hurting. I can’t believe how your father hurt you.”

Zvon looked away, pressing his sore back against the wall of the sleeping bay. It fired pain over all of him from the contact. “He isn’t a bad man when he’s not drinking.” He left you to die. He tried to sell your corpse he reminded himself. That was terrible and true but so was what he had said. He remembered, just barely the times when his mother was alive and his father was nice. They had played in the yard then, in a different house, a better one than the mean thing he had just ran away from.

“He was bad today,” she said, her pretty eyes flat.

Zvon hung his head. “He is too often,” he admitted in a whisper.




25093 / 50000 words. 50% done!

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