The Sowing

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I squint through my protective goggles against the maelstrom of swirling sand and blinding neon lights closing in on either side of me, trying to crush me in their rainbow vise.

This is it. The Avenue of Longing. Home of the Pleasure Emporiums, the place where every appetite can be satisfied—for a steep price.

How many thousands—no, hundreds of thousands—of patrons have had their dark fantasies fulfilled behind these brilliantly lit facades, all at the expense of countless kids with no one to care, no one to fight for them?

Until now.

The sandstorm moans in my ears, its winds buffeting my body as if trying to hold me back.

But I won’t be denied. Not after coming so far.

Adrenaline burns through me like lit kerosene. The familiar rush that I’ve nicknamed the crush—a mixture of fear, defiance, and justice, with a heaping dollop of vengeance. After months of sneaking off from my unit and risking execution, you’d think I’d have gotten used to it.

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