Ripples And Hills
The silence stretches sharp and suffocating.
Then, Helia speaks, his voice softer, but carved with sorrow. “Before I came here, I saw photos. Girls beaten down, women broken…used, abused. Killed.” His eyes lift to mine, dark with a sadness I’ve never seen in him. Not even when his father died.
“But Hulio isn’t like that,” I whisper. “He isn’t a killer.”
Helia laughs, humorless and raw. “How can you know? No one knows how far it goes.”
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