Chapter Five
Secrets:
Hundreds of miles away, Daciana stood in front of the ruins of the old house that had once been her home. Her memories here were fleeting shadows. She stepped over the scattered bones of an animal and onto the steps. A wave of dizziness hit her, and she reached out and grasped the broken column that had once held up the roof of the porch.
“Memories…,” she hissed.
She wrapped her hand around the column and extended her nails. Pain, death, fear…. She remembered those feelings. She looked at the brittle, bleached bones.
She had returned here to find answers. Turning on the top step, she glanced over the ruins of the compound. The burned-out remains of a large metal building were now covered in vines. The single concrete block structure near it had fared better than
