Chapter 4: Feeble Hope
I move slowly and grab the torn mask.
It is Raph's…
I cradle it and wonder if he cast it aside or if someone took it off him.
Then I remember the fight on the roof…he must've thrown it away…my heart breaks again.
I want my family whole again…one again. Even if it means I step down from the leadership role I've worked for my whole life. I'd do it...it'd give it all up…just to have my family together.
I'd stay in the shadows…I'd fade out…I'd give up everything.
I just want my family whole.
I feel the silk in my hand and remember what those men said. The kind we find here aren't missed.
I have to find him.
I make my shaking body move and slowly creep toward the voices. I'm cold instantly and start shivering, it's all I can do to stop myself from letting my teeth chatter.
"How much you think we'll get off of that thing we caught last night?" I hear a man ask as they start heading out of the building.
"Oh…from an Earthen slave port?" the other man laughs, "at least a million."
"Sounds good to me," the first says.
I realize that they are talking about Raph…I grip the mask in my hand and scramble after them, frantically trying to stay quiet.
I'm coming Raph…please…let me help you.
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Sorry for the short chapter…the others will be longer.