Choose your enemies carefully

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Three days ago, the pain had seemed unbearable.

But as time passed, the constant discomfort lessened the burden by dulling her senses. As late as this mornling, she thought that she had grown used to it. Then cramps had started. The crippling agony had racked her with increasingly frequent spasms all day. Now, it was almost dark. She didn't dare cry out.

A new spasm tore at her intestines and clawed its way up her torso, firing her insides with blazing agony. Despite her best intentions, she screamed as her musknotted in the brutal grip of the convulsion. As the wave of pain ebbed, she lay panting, certain that she had betrayed herself. Slowly, painfully, she dragged herself deeper into the gloom of her chosen shelter. The inhabitants of this rundown building, if there were any, remained hidden. Her only company was her misery. Moaning at the pain accompanying her every movement, she forced her legs to carry her up the stairs. If she could get far enough away, they might not find her tonight. The ravening fire in her belly threatened to overwhelm her, but she hugged one arm across her stomach and continued, bracing herself against the stairwell wall with the other.

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