*Erik*
“I need to clean the blood off before we go get Mani,” I tell Ellie. She nods as she straightens her dress, and I take her hand since she made it quite clear that she is not concerned with the blood that covers me.
When we approach the house, I can see that the raiders made it to our home, and while the house appears to be untouched from the outside, the fence is broken in multiple spots, and there are livestock dead on the ground.
“No,” Ellie gasps, her eyes wide with horror. “No. The goat.”
Her words echo in my head. The goat. Mani’s goat. I drop her hand and rush into the fence, searching for the mother goat everywhere. I finally find her near the barn, dead. I can feel the anger surging up. They killed what my girl needs to survive.
I look back and see the heartb
