BLOOD DEBT
But promise taketh no attention.
Hours pass. No one speaks to me. Someone does not tell me why I am still alive. Hunger chews me, and anger burns still higher. I walk around the room, repeating all the words Dino said, all the glances he cast my way. Instead of being a threat, he is dangerous because he makes decisions.
It is what is most horrifying to me.
I am rudely awakened by the voice of shouting.
Then gunfire erupts.
Initially, I believed it to be my imagination, but the cracking noises became nearer and clearer. Bells ring in the estate, very strong and desperate. I go down to the window, and I find men running over the grounds with weapons up. Smoke curls into the air.