The Prime of Life

To keep him from having to make things difficult, she willingly stepped into the darkness at a tender age. In a hopeless world, she crawled, struggled, grew, and transformed. Fortunately, she was in time to help ease his burdens.

He raised his gun. She knelt. Ten years of hardship had been worth it. Blood stained her clothes, and the wounds were etched into her heart.

"If I had someone like her, you wouldn't have a place here." Elder Li's roar was a symphony, one that played the tune of all she had sacrificed and endured.

"Bang... Bang... Bang..." Three gunshots marked the finale. The song had not ended, but the people had