Chapter 20-A New Life

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This chapter takes place around a year after the last one.

~Twilight

I lay down in my hammock underneith the stars and thought about the last year: running away, going to the desert, exploring the Kingdom of Sand, and finding this small oasis hut.  Though I was only five years old, everyone in the near-bye towns knew about Ghost (they didn't know my real name, only the by the name of the assassin that they hired.  I had named myself after after my old home, a gentle reminder of my parents and my stone jail that I escaped from).

Every night that Imperial was full, just like the night I was hatched, I went to The Scorpion Den to collect my new assignments, and this time was no different.

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