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Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!
First Impression: Well...this was quite an action packed prologue this one...oh wow...this one was truly off to a cracker of a start this one...definitely ticks most of the boxes that one does expect from a prologue...and well...phew...this is some super sad backstory here for our protagonist.
Anyway let's get right to it,
I was used to running. I grew up running from one group after another. I was never able to stop.
Oooh..well that's certainly quite an interesting way to get a prologue started...loving the vibe created by that one right there....certainly looks like it could be quite interesting there...well, let's see why all this running happened then, shall we?
I first ran when I was just a baby. My oldest sister took me and Lisa. Our mother couldn’t keep us any longer. The republic puts a limit on children like we are merchandise, which to them we are. You could get your paperwork and have a single child, as long as it followed their specifications, hair color, size, gender, everything. But my sisters and I weren’t what was wanted.
Well...that sounds like a horrible place to live, oh my goodness, its hard to even begin to imagine how life could possibly get to a place like that and then having to run off to survive, when you are just a baby, well you just simply cannot imagine how terrible a situation that might be, of course you probably won't remember anything being just a baby but when you learn of it later, phew....
The day they came for us our mother packed us supplies and then pushed us out the door. She always wanted a better life for us. When we were born she told them we had died. How they found out about us I don’t know.
Well, I'm guessing they were smarter than to believe that three kids can just die in a row from the same mother, or perhaps they are spying on people...which considering they are putting rules on what kind of babies you can have, that's very plausible to imagine...and also...okay...this mother doing what any mother would...wanting to protect here kids.
My sisters ran for months. Hoping to get free or be forgotten, but we weren’t. The republic caught up.
My oldest sister barely ten was shot and killed. Lisa and I were taken in and put into The Child House. We would grow up far away from everyone; taught to be one of the republic's army.
Well, everything is off to a terribly sad start there..oh my goodness....this is terrible to even attempt to imagine, shooting and killing someone that's not even ten years old and then having to get locked away in some kind of child army training place...well..the setting for this place is certainly horrible.
But they made a mistake, Lisa although young already knew too much. Normally all were taken the day after birth, like we should have been. As I grew Lisa taught me of the outside world, the injustice, that it was wrong.
Hmm, yes...well...that seems like the kind of education that just might get you killed or potentially have you leading some sort of revolution to try and be free...not great signs considering how liberally these people would kill children.
But she went too far; became too involved with the revolutionaries and was killed for it when she was thirteen.
I was left by myself only seven years into my life. I used what she taught me to stay alive, but I promised to never get involved, not like she did. That was until I met him.
Yup...that is about what you expect to see in a situation like that one...oh dear...well...that is straight up the end right there...another sister killed, this one barely any older than the other one, and know here she is, left alone at just age seven, having to survive...and looks like she made the smart decision as far as surviving to adulthood is concerned but...hmm....well certainly a lovely way to end off a prologue there...certainly adding a good amount of mystery to it there.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
Overall: Overall, a proper cracker of a start this one, I would certainly want to read on after seeing this at the beginning, cause you really want to see if the protagonist here can survive, after all this story couldn't possibly get any worse for them, things have to get better soon.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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