Gemma grabbed a handful of her hair, squeezed, and stopped just short of pulling. Her frustrations had returned. She never asked the Strangers if she was alive, dead, or dangling somewhere in between like a death row inmate swinging from a noose, waiting for either her neck or the rope to break. And a hundred years may pass before she saw the Strangers …
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