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...until his mother comes running, and chases you away.

No help is coming for you so you scream although your voice is hoarse. There’s no one to help you, and you scream, snot and spittle and water and foam spraying everywhere; you scream – the blows are subsiding but you scream sorrow and pity and innocence lost; you keep screaming although the blows have stopped a while ago and you have no voice left. Only dry sobs shake your exhausted frame now, and after a while they subside too, awhile yet you even stop shaking. Soon after, mercifully, sleep comes, and then, finally

you know

no more

********************************

Some unknown time later, you open your eyes. It hurts, everything hurts. Your throat’s burning, your muscles are rigid with pain, your body bruised. Bit by bit you realize you can see, there’s light now. Pulling yourself slowly up – real slowly, crap that hurts! you look gingerly around.

Only water surrounds you

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