life-or-death

Wouldn__ it have been better to conserve your strength and rest?_ Ildiko mused after a moment. ____l sleep long and hard when I__ dead. You defy death by celebrating life.

We know no fear. It was cut from our souls at birth. We can feel it only as an absence, as an empty shadow cast by the light of annihilation. In the face of a future of atrocity I stand mute, numb to the only feeling that would make me human. But I remember what fear was: its cold pulse in my veins; its echo in my ears. I remember fear, and remember that I was once human. I look towards what must come to pass and I wish that I could meet it as my ancestors did, with fear. The future deserves that, it deserves fear.

Next to the day when I was almost shot by that arrow, the worst day of my life was when I was almost eaten.

Alannah?_ He held her limp body waiting for a response. __on__ do this._ He put his hand over the other cut whispering his words and healing it as well. __lannah?_ His voice begged, as he held her face in his hand Still no response. He looked at the ground she had laid on realizing that she had lost a lot of blood. Then from the corner of his eye he saw the rise and fall of her chest and let out a breath he hadn__ realized he was holding. She still lives.

Well, how do we get out of this place?_ Evyette__ voice shaking slightly.__e can__._ If Kaleb felt any hopelessness he wasn__ conveying it. He looked around arduously, __nless we find someone willing to help us.___h well, that should not be a problem at all,_ Tristan retorted throwing his hands up, __onsidering everything so far has tried to kill us!

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.