Kali’s POV“Kali, there are two kind of people in this world,” Soraya said, running a comb through my white hair. “There are the hawks, people like Maduro and Hera. They’re the lucky ones. Blessed to inherit the earth; and there are the hens, people like me and you,” she put the last pin into my hair, before enveloping it with a black scarf, “people like you and me have nothing. We are nobodies and the world would not miss us, should we happen to disappear.”Soraya, paused, her tired blue eyes taking in the work she did on my hair. My white abomination was concealed completely inside the scarf. “We do what we have to do to survive and that means, keeping our mouths shut, our heads down and we take whatever scraps we can. Do you understand?” I nodded, staring at the wide-eyed little girl in the mirror. “Yes, mama Soraya.”^^^“Do you understand, Kora?”I nodded my head severally, my eyes never leaving Ike’s face. I would take whatever scrapes I can, as long as it increased my chance
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