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*~Lost Me~*

By *Miko Angel*

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She was running. Her chest heaving as her lungs ached for air, as her feet drummed quietly on the moist ground beneath her bare feet. A bloody and tattered kimono was draped around her body, the once silken white, now almost completely crimson from her blood. Her raven hair was knotted, strands flying precariously out of their bindings as she ran through the dark moonless night. In her eyes, tears shone and rivers streaked down her dirty cheeks and dropped on to the soiled kimono. She looked worse for ware, but an elation filled her chest as an resounding thought repeated itself over and over in her head making her throbbing body less painful, and her spirits heighten.

She was free.

Finally free from -His- clutches. Two years she had been at his mansion as he tried to manipulate her will and beliefs. Two miserable, tear filled years he had tried torturing her to get what he wanted. Two years of struggling to remain who she was... to not let him win.

He would never succeed because she'd never allow him too.

She had finally managed to escape and she'd rather die then ever go back there.

She was free...

Finally free from his tainted soul.

From his hatred and fury.

From his doting and pampering.

The young woman looked up to the stars and whispered to the wind, an small warm smile forming on her lips for the first time in months.

"I'm free... finally free..."

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