Bloody Letter

The writer says fleeing Maragir tested him, yet surviving outside proved the true horror: feral beasts, freezing nights, never knowing what comes next.

Dieter broke during a vrakhiri patrol chase — simply stopping to sit giggling on the road, immovable — and was left behind; back at the hideout, Curt called the writer a coward and shoved him, and the writer punched him again and again, unable to stop the rage inside.

Now alone and writing to someone dead, the author expects to join them soon.