He nods. "He had a bike in the shed. I took it and I ran, ran as far as I could. Eli taught me enough about how to work the system to forge my way from school to school, changing my name and gender whenever I stopped feeling safe."
"The day before my seventeenth birthday, I saw on the news that the Emperors were no more. A feud between gangs. Leo was dead." He toy with the bottle. "I could have stopped running then but it had become too much a part of who I was."
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Date: 2015-07-24 09:37 am (UTC)"The day before my seventeenth birthday, I saw on the news that the Emperors were no more. A feud between gangs. Leo was dead." He toy with the bottle. "I could have stopped running then but it had become too much a part of who I was."