arias-defiore

A few casualties always come with the war,_ Zadok answers. I stare at him for a moment, caught off-guard by his merciless approach. __ doubt you__ say the same if you were one of them._ He looks at me with tired eyes. __hat__ where you__e wrong._ His whole body sags, finally showing what age has done to him. __y whole family was a casualty at the Baghdad institute. My parents helped found it. It was the first institute to be targeted by its own government. They went down with it. I was twenty-five. The Jerusalem institute sent help as soon as they found out, before the Iraqi government could search the ruins. I was the only person they found still remotely close to being alive._ His gaze looks lost as he continues. __t took me three years to recover, and four to become a carrier again. It took me that long to re-master my fear of being out of control._ His eyes shift to mine. __on__ accuse me of not understanding the cost of this war. I understand plenty. I give myself up for it every day.