Familiar Assassins
READING AGE 16+
I woke up feeling that something had changed.
I blinked twice, waiting for my eyes to adjust, and glanced at the clock beside my bed. It read 6:38, as it did every morning. I slid out of bed and moved to my dresser, where I opened the third drawer and pulled out a dark blue V-necked shirt with short sleeves and a dark blue pair of pants. I changed in front of the mirror and examined myself. I looked just as I had the last time I’d looked in the mirror: long, straight, dark brown hair; blue eyes; an absurdly straight and narrow nose; the slight scar at the edge of my eyebrow. The scar whose origin I still couldn’t remember.
Familiar Assassins is created by M.J. Swenson, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.
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Back at Tumultus, it became clear I had been wrong about no one taking the rebels' advice. Hundreds of people had swarmed into the settlement, flocking around the rebellion's makeshift buildings for food and shelter and medicine. Some of them had begun to form their own buildings and family units, too.
"Wow," I said.
"The people?" Ta……
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