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Water splashes up, drenching my feet in cold tidal waves.  Running from barrack to barrack becomes tiring after a few weeks. My muscles ache from never ending strain. If the guards receive the slightest inkling that you are weak, a bullet is put into your skull on site.

For some reason, I try not to be that girl.

"Drop!" He commands.  Red Eyes raises his gun and shoots a man struggling next to me.  His body falls to the ground, slumping and twitching for his final moments alive.  His body is not retrieved.  

Nobody pays the deceased man any attention, just continuing to work through the endless grueling work.  It's sick, the way we have become so desensitized to these things.  It's sick how the Elite have trained us to be disposable.   My stomach clenches, and I feel that I might throw up until my guts are laying in a heap in front of me.  I am tired.  My eyes water from the searing pain.  My arms quiver from exhaustion.  

I cannot go on.

I fall to the ground like a plummeting leaf from a tree.  Nothing to catch me but the muddy, freezing ground.

At least the ground smells better than rot and shit.

"Up!"

My body does not obey his orders. I am weak. I am tired.  His anger radiates off of him in waves.

"I said up dammit!"  He will kill me at any moment now.

I pray to the Gods for death to be swift.  Don't I deserve a gift as simple as that?

"I said up!" A gun clicks, barrel pressing in on my skull.  The mud is slippery between my fingers.  I stare at the brown goop, watching the way it mixes with water and dirt to make a new form.  Maybe in death I too will morph with another element and become a new being.  

Hopefully my death will be swift. I do not have the will to go on in this hell.

"Go ahead, pull the trigger," I rasp.  My limbs shake with such a force I fear that I might fall apart right under his feet.  What a sight this must be for him.  I bet he is basking in the glory of it.

"If that's what you want, Red."   His disgusting nickname for me only makes death that much sweeter.

Bang!

The last thing I see are his red eyes laughing down at me.
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Posted on January 30, 2017.

Edited on February 6, 2017.

It's short but it's needed. My other chapters are over 2,000 words long, so I decided to make a few short ones.

How do you like the cliff hanger?? 😘😘mwah!

220 words.