If You Don’t Want to Go to Sleep, Close Your Eyes: Chapter 2

…The path home was a cold and dark one. I wouldn’t miss this long walk.  Maybe things would be better when spring came.  The sky was dark as clouds gathered, hiding the starlight. I kicked off my dusty shoes outside our home and went inside. Mother tied down the last wrap over the top of the roof. I had left it open since the last moon. Tonight’s Hunger Moon had grown full, but I could not see its light.

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