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"Simon! Simon, stop it your hurting yourself and more importantly your scaring me....fine fine ill calm down just stop it okay??""
They sat in resentful silance for a bit
" well Youve got to agree with me we are some place else arent we"
"Are you going to explain who that woman is now? and how ou know me??"
"I don't know! I just keep dreaming about you, it's almost like we were meant to meet! I can't get my head around it!"
"Simon sat against the wall, "This is too much for me at the moment. You sure this isn't a dream now?" He laughed, "So what were your dreams about?"
"well usually it was everyday things like you sitting in the cafe, looking for work , getting drunk. Last night you were at a party and spoke to a beautiful girl in a red dress but I always gett this wierd paniky feeling like when that woman thing turned up earlier"
" you said earlier somthing about my mother what was that?"
"Wow mirical of miricals a man who can listen! oh alright she turned up at my house last night rember he attack and said things about having an affair with my dad and you were the product"
"so what according to her im your brother?"
"actually no I was adopted, my mother couldnt have children"
"This all too confusing. How...How...She's my mother?"
"Apparantly!"
"So my father...This doesn't make sense, I had a father. He died eight years ago, and my mother is still alive, barely, but still alive. This can't be true."
"Ever consider that things aren't always as they seem?" Charlie stared at the wall in front of her.
For what seemed like hours but was proably only minutes they sat there like that- him sunk in bewildermnet and her in the numbness of shock when they first noticed the sound- a soft scraping sound.
"Rats?!" squeaked charlie
"M-maybe, but I dont think so. Listen!"
And sure enough there was a more of a scraping noise of metal on stone raher than scuffling sound of paws.
"what is it now?!"
"It's outside the door!" Simon ran up to the door and pressed his ear against it. "I can't make out what it is, but if it is rats, it's the largest one ever!"
It was lucky that Charlie and Simon didn't see the body being dragged along the floor from the cell next to theirs.
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The rain drizzeled down as the Fourh guard dragged the former confines of the spirit of Fedel Razzel, a common thief to the officials, a beacon of light to the slum dwellers. Sullenlly from behind the gates a handful of ragged children with old eyes watched their former leaders being treated as just so much meat.
"So what do we now?"
The people in the slums shifted on the uncomfortable ground. They had been waiting for this day and knew it would come, but now it was here, it didn't seem real! They looked at one another and small, polite smiles greeted each other faces. They knew it was over.
But it wasnt it was only truly the begining of a new chapter. A chapter in which Charlie and Simon were to play a significant part. They just did not know it yet. o ojne id except peraps for the eerie smiling statue Of a woman With 3 faces Looking down over the town.
The people stared at the opening of their slum as the men ran in, guns under their arms, shouting. The children clung onto their mothers as the fathers were torn from their wives, their fingers ripping at each other, pleading not to be left alone. They couldn't handle it, but they would have to!
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A loud noise sounded from out side what charlie had come to thin of as a dungeon cell
It sounded like- but it couldnt possibly be ...
"GUNS!!" shouted Simon
"Guns! do you realise what this means? it means I was right all along!"
But charlie kept sitting with dazed look painted on her face staring vagully at the door
"I haven't got time for this! We need to find a way out and fast! This isn't safe! Charlie get up and help me will you?"
"Charlene!! what's wrong with you??Don't u understand?!THIS ISN'T SAFE!"
But Charlie was still staring at the door, Simon could see her trying to speak but what came out of her mouth was nothing audible...Oh No! could he see tears in her eyes?
...suddenly she pointed towards the door...
The door suddenly swung open and there were the "guards" or the bad guys as Charlie thought of then. The shock of this seemed to waken her from her dazed state.
The guards marched in and grabbed thenm roughly by the arms 2 dragging charlie and 3 simon.
They began to snap at them in goobldygooke that could only be some foriegn langusge.
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hey smiling, opr eva if thats how you preffer to be called mind you I like smiling, anyway welcome to the WT come back lots ( but just a note simon doesnt know charlies whole name is Charlene only the "witch" does)
Simon kicked and shouted at them, but to no prevail. The guards were too strong for them. Ahead of him he could hear Charlie screaming and the guards struggling to keep her under control. He heard a loud thump and saw Charlie's body slumped upon the floor.