All I've Ever Known

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The Georgia heat was growing more and more unbearable with the start of summer quickly approaching, the putrid smell of rotting corpses only intensified under the burning sun and almost every stream and river she'd come across had been dried up an...

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The Georgia heat was growing more and more unbearable with the start of summer quickly approaching, the putrid smell of rotting corpses only intensified under the burning sun and almost every stream and river she'd come across had been dried up and barren.

"Never thought you'd miss Winter huh?" Ellie Mitchell whispered, talking to herself had become a source of comfort. She couldn't count the amount of conversations she'd had solely with herself to keep the voices out of her head. Singing worked too, not loud enough to lure walkers but just enough to fill the constant silence she'd lived in for almost two years now.

"All I've ever known is how to hold my own
All I've ever known is how to hold my own
But now I wanna hold you too
Now I wanna hold you."

The words were like a second language to her now, she'd written that song years ago in the back booth of a greasy run down diner with her mamas old guitar. She sang when the sun was shining or the rain pouring, she sang when she didn't think she could make it another day on an empty stomach or when her bones hurt so bad she thought they would snap. She sang when the moans and groans of the walkers kept her up at night.

The snap of a branch had Ellie swinging around, knife poised and ready to throw at whatever thought it was a good idea to sneak up on her. A flash of bright blue and blonde zoomed past, far too quick to be a walker but too small to be any kind of grown man. The blur of blue fabric lunged behind a tree, a dirty sneaker sticking out from its hiding place... small foot.. faded rainbow laces and smiley face stickers on the heel.

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