On the ferry dock a bitter autumn afternoon, a little girl is sitting on the pier.
She is wearing little more than rags, and in her hand is a teddy bear.
The girl is waiting. The girl is longing.
A faint whistling behind her makes her turn, in hopes of a faith restored.
But only a strange sense of darkness lingers before her as a distant thunder roar.
The girl waits. The girl longs,
until finally, alone and forlorn, she no longer sees a reason to fear.
The girl stretches her hand out to meet the darkness,
as she waves goodbye to the bear on the pier.
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Patterns of Betrayal
ActionAbandoned as a child. Raised by loan sharks. And now, she was to die before sundown. Underground debt-collector, Alene, finds herself being pushed out of the familiar world of schemes and illegal trade deals, and thrown into a world unknown to he...
