Kicking up Dust

[candleWick]

A young woman stands in her bedroom. She is apathetic to the day to come. Yet she is restless and has awoken from her slumber too early to wake but too late to go back to sleep.

[candleWick]

Your name is DAMARA MEGIDO and you are SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD.

[candleWick]

You already know what horrible fate will meet you today.

For the past few months you've been learning things from others in the district so you'll have a chance at not dying. Your mother survived almost twenty years ago.

You might not have that courtesy.