—–The only question was… XXNX It was all clear now. The moisture whelming over her eyes had faintly cleared her vision, and from the corner of her eye there was a figure. It was all too much, too horrible to handle, and as the tears he had so long desired to release welled up, for the first time, he began to sob. Her skin felt torn and useless, dried in the burning light of the over-looming sun, and her clothing was raggedy and makeshift; it felt as beaten as her body, yet not quite as severally as her spirit. She slowly raised her line of vision upward, and caught what she had so desperately saught for so long… —–And that’s when she noticed it.
