Though sleeping in a net hanging 10-15 feet above the ground wasn't quite the most comfortable place, I've been in worse. I quickly fell asleep and had a dream that night.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6MgSRqTk2b
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I looked into mom's dark red eyes. Each day, they got darker and darker. She had been sick and people refused to take care of her because of me. Her daughter, who looked like a demon because of her bright red eyes. They locked us in a tower and carved demon into my back at the age of 13. I didn't care though. As long as mom was here everything would be fine. That's always what she said while she put me to sleep.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeWIvbu5gfB
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"Everything's going to be alright," she cooed. She brushed her fingers through my hair. I pretended to fall asleep and watched her lay down and fall asleep beside me. I opened my eyes and sat up next to her. I always spent the night watching her incase she stopped breathing. That's how I got my habit of sleeping during the day.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6uY6J5GHN7
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For a while I thought she was fine. Then "that" happened. She was reading me a book in the small part of the tower where we had been locked away. Suddenly blood started to fall out of her mouth and onto the book.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLuyCNoGKuu
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"Mom!" I yelled. "Mom!"489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGfA2z7TdG
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I watched her slowly fall of the chair. She brought her hand by her mouth and rubbed some of the blood away. She put her hand on my cheek, forgetting about he blood.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ4L6rytsKi
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"It's...okay..." She started coughing out blood.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5CnWq3d3O
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I ran to the locked door at the side of the room. I tried to rip it open but it wouldn't budge. I gave up and started banging on it.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ0xjH973Xz
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"Help!" I yelled tears starting to flood my eyes. "Help!"489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbJ6GdH9WC
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But nobody was there. And even if someone was they wouldn't want to help the girl demon and her mom. I watched mom slowly fade away.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEE9TnmLGlT
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"Mitsuko," she said. "I...love...yo...you." She died.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhoS71f0ig7
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That was when I woke up. I looked down and saw 5 of the people from yesterday looking up at me. The prince was one of them.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSXXBUHHiCO
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"Hello," the prince said.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4o1l6in0KT
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I just looked at him.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdwM7NmCqmx
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"Not one for conversation I see," he said. "Ryuu, can you take her weapons off for me?"489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNZdEyzl9u9
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"Yes sir!" Said a little boy standing by the prince. How did someone this young get into the king's court? He looked like he was only 14.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtC8UgotcHC
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He jumped up and gripped the net with his left hand and disarmed me with his right. Because I was tangled in the net, I couldn't do anything about it.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFeYnwlMCOp
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He handed my weapons to the prince who handed it to one of the people beside him.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB2nMowkgZG
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"Doesn't look like she carries any poisons," he said after a closer examination. "You should be fine."489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSm0RNuLUsg
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I noticed that the prince was avoiding the use of his left shoulder. Probably because I put a knife in it.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDE7twnBGVq
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"I thought assassins always dealt with poisons," the kid said.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSwzujDL0dw
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"Most do," said one of the others. I think he was the one holding my wrists yesterday, mostly because his right arm was wrapped tightly. "I guess this is just a weird one."489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfHTEw9Z28
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"It would have been smart to take poisons with you," said another one of them. He was probably the oldest. Maybe 35ish. "If you had we would've been dead by now."489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFAOwY8oaT7
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"Okay Miss Assassin," the prince said looking up at me. " I have a proposition for you. You are clearly very strong and fast. You see these 4 men standing around me. This is my special operations team. They are the 4 strongest men in the country, until you came around. I would like you to be the 5th and final member of my special operations team. So. What do you say?"489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc6wOrL4TJl
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"No," was my immediate response.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡukOElQ0wml
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"What!?" For some reason he was surprised that I said no. "Why not!? Would you rather just go back to your country and be killed for not completing your mission!? I'm not going to let you go back to your country just to be killed!" Why was he so stubborn?489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8L2jyNoifw
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"Then kill me here," I said. If I was going to be killed anyway, I'd rather die sooner than later.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcUGeXsZac1
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"No!" He yelled. "That's not the point! Why are you so set on dying anyway!? Why can't you just stay here and live!?"489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1x5choLhEG
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"There's no use in fighting him," the last of his 4 men said. "He's to stubborn to let you go."489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuqC9oWm798
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"No."489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3WeGefpuyK
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"Okay," the prince said. He started to think and suddenly got an idea. "How about, if you stay here, I'll give you a reason to smile!?"489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoZvJiExfWb
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"Why would I want that?" I asked.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZNp5WvNYY
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"Because it's so much more fun to smile than to be all grumpy like that!" What is he so stubborn!? When I say no, I mean no! "And besides," he said finally getting serious, "there may be some secrets to your countries history that you may want to know."489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnRmnDd0agl
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"I could care less about them."489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxk1AYPNMzO
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"Your so hard to deal with!" He was like a little kid. "Is there anything you really want that I can give you in exchange for your strength."489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyD5uKi4muk
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I thought about it for a second. Suddenly my stomach began to gurgle. A sly smile came onto the princes face. "How about we talk about this over some food? Sho, can you cut her down?" He said to one of his men.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfHogPoc4kZ
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They led me through the halls in the Capitol. I got lots of terrified looks from maids and guards. That was to be expected though. I was a foreigner from the country they were at war with and had bright red eyes.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJOuRDY4KnE
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They walked me into a small room with a table in the middle of it. They had a chef bring in lots of gourmet foods. I looked at the food. I could be poisoned but after all the effort he put into trying to recruit me and not wanting to kill people, probably not.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCodXHNIeGr
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"How long has it been since you last ate?" The kid asked me.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBMBYRh66pI
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I thought back. I hadn't eaten on the pirate ship or the day before I left or the day that I got here.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6B2THGCTr3
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"5 days," I said.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmjHEbAYmcd
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"What!?" The boy yelled. "How are you not dead!? I can only go a few hours without eating!"489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowPUV1enZu
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"You can eat all you want," the prince told me. The people around me started to eat. They looked like they were having fun though. I took a bite of the food. It tasted so good! I though about his earlier proposal. Maybe being apart of their little group wouldn't be so bad.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhu3Vt8gmqI
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"I guess," I said, "it wouldn't be so bad to stick around for a while." At least until everything calms down in my own country.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡloaxz2B43G
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"I knew you'd come around," the prince said. "It's good to have you. I may be the prince, but you can just call me Ko." I started taking in the features of the people around me. Ko had blonde hair and bright blue eyes. He always had a huge smile on his face.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡG59jUSdagT
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"I'm Ryuu!" The killed yelled. He had green eyes and wild red hair that fell to a little above his shoulders. "He's Sho," Ryuu said pointing to the one who cut me out of the tree. I noticed that he had a scar going over his left eye. "And he's Nao," Ryuu said pointing to the one that was holding m wrists earlier. He had bright purple eyes and dark brown hai that was combed perfectly down the sides of his head. "He doesn't talk much and he's kind of scary at first but you'll get to know him eventually!"489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV24XOM53lM
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"And I'm Toshi," the older one said. He had white eyes, they were rare but not quite as rare as red eyes. He had light brown hair.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kHEAZSupW
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"Kira," I said.489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMbESYXsfvg
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"Well, Kira," the prince said, "welcome to my personal special operations group!"489Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUTZH2MnDs
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