The Survivor's Echo

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we reached a remote, dilapidated cabin. It

of the truck and

rew me onto a dusty mattress on the floor a

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his voice eerily calm. "I told y

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to posse

ys. He talked to me for hours, about our past life, about his div

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the cabin, but to the woods nearby. He would p

anted me to know he was with he

road. I started to scream for help, a des

med in. He

r boiling on a small ca

his eyes blazing, "I will make s

and poured the scaldin

ble. I choked and gagg

gain, my voice was gone. Only

"If you do, I will find you. And I will cripple you. I