“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.” ~ Veronica Roth
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(Elian)
"We went for a run, mom," Elian said as she looked at her mother. She almost wanted to ask what she was doing in OOA house in the middle of the night, but she decided against it.
"Now?" her mom looked at them with narrowed eyes, as she wrinkled her nose. Elian was sure her mother was disappointed, but she was disappointed, too. She wanted to ask Rosanna about the pendant, the one that was her supposed dead mother's. Of course, Rosanna wasn't the one who gave her the pendant, but she had this feeling that her parents knew a lot more than they were telling her.
Maybe, one day, she would confront them about this. But that one day was not today. "It is cold out there. Go on, a
