A Short Story Of Liia's Exception: A Narrative Fiction

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Liia closed her eyes tight but held her body even tighter, bracing herself for the rush of fear and desperate panic. Surrounded by cold darkness and thin, dusty air. Metal ground against metal; a lurching shudder shook the room around her. The door slid open, liia expected the worse she knew it was time to die. She rose up onto her knees, peeling her sweat soaked shirt from her stomach, all she could think was relief. She had been transferred into a single cell after discovering a hidden secret of the capitol, but for liia there was no such thing as solitary. The voices came from every direction. Some were familiar and others were unknown. They filled the silence between her heartbeats.
She had been constricted for treason, but the truth needs

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