Escape
I pause and lay my head against the cool steal of the door.
“How?” comes the soft question from the other side, if I hadn’t had my head up against the door I probably would have missed it. “How, what?” I ask, confused. “How, do you thank the Lord, when this is the life you have been forced to live?” The question stops my thoughts and my answer comes immediately and without hesitation. “Just because I do not see the sky any more, does that mean it is still not blue? If I stopped, my world would stop. At the end of all of this, if that monster has not robbed me of my faith, then he didn’t win. He didn’t take everything from me.”
“But didn’t he?” Liam asks. “No, he didn’t. There would be days w