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Smoke and Mirrors
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""Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them." – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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title: heavy chains
prompt: E; escape
featuring: Abby
set: post-series
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She sees them in her dreams; the faces are even more terrible when she's awake. They follow her everywhere: to work, to the store, even home to her cat. Grotesque, twisted in fear and twisted in undeserved death, they're there and nothing she can do will make them go away.
She hears them. Pleading, crying. Screaming, dying. They ask for her help, enraged when she can only deny it.
It's your fault, the ghosts accuse. You're to blame, they hiss. I'm dead because of you.
And Abby, so weighed down and buried by her severe survivor's guilt, can only agree.