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"Listen." The word leaves my mouth, dry, choppy, like a pebble skipping over porcelain tiles, disturbing the silence you and I are so fond of. "I’m listening." You smile expectantly, but a little bit bored, like it’s nothing new, like you’ve heard the word a million times and nothing important is bound to follow it. You, with your rosy cheeks and million dollar acting skills, are probably wondering if today is the day that I finally say something, and your tennis shoes will finally get to fulfill their reason for existing. "I think..." I...
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The deafening boom of a grenade. The screams of civilians. The frightened face of the comrade next to him. This had been his first mission and what a disaster it turned out to be. “Lowell! this was an ambush” Someone screamed in the distance “you know where to take Gabe” “Roger that Sir!” came a nearby reply. The last thing Gabe remembered was the monogram of Angel Academy’s junior Cherubim force in the sky before a needle pricked his neck and everything went black. In a world where everyone was born with a degree of powe...
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