<div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://s5.favim.com/orig/54/brown-dirty-blonde-girl-hair-Favim.com-528527.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffff90">☣</span><span style="color: #82eeee">I am cold, can you hear...?</span><br/><span style="color: #ffff90">☣</span><span style="color: #82eeee">I will fly with no hope, no fear...</span><br/><span style="color: #ffff90">☣</span><span style="color: #82eeee">And the ground taunts my wings...</span><br/><span style="color: #ffff90">☣</span><span style="color: #82eeee">Plummet as I sing, plummet as I sing...</span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;">That photo was taken what seems like years ago, but really it had only been about 8 months ago. That wasn't the same 22 year old who looked so happy...so full of life. That girl has been replaced by a darker more numb being. It almost seemed fitting that her name Maura, meant dark. It's as if she were fated for the life set before her now. The life full of death, despair, terror, pain and oh so much more. <br/><br/><span style="color: #a74ac7"><span style="font-style: italic">"Sh*t! Sh*t! Sh*t!"</span></span> Maura thought as she sprinted as fast as she could through the woods, the cold winter's air stinging the tears streaming down her face. <span style="color: red">"What's the matter sweet heart? You think you and your friends could get away with trying to steal from US and get away with it?"</span> Laughed one of the men tailing behind her. <span style="color: red">"We can't let you get off that easy my dear."</span> He continued as he slowed his pace pulling his gun from his holster, taking aim as she continued to run. <span style="color: #a74ac7">"I'm sorry...I'm so sorry...It's all my fault..."</span> She said under her breath before collapsing onto the ground as the man pulled the trigger, the bullet making a straight shot through her shoulder. <span style="color: red">"That was almost too easy! Boys! Over here, I finally got her."</span> He called to the others in his group. <br/><br/>The man who seemed to be the leader of the group of rogue bandits pulled her head up out of the dirt by her hair. Smirking down at her he pulled her face inches away from his. <span style="color: red">"Let's have a little fun before I kill you. What do you say?"</span> He raised a brow licking his lips. Maura's eyes narrowed as she spit in his face. <span style="color: red">"You're a feisty one huh?"</span> The male shoved her back against the ground, stomping his foot against her bleeding wound. Maura winced in pain having almost forgotten that she had been shot in the first place. As the stranger attempted to slip his grubby hands under her shirt, she managed to slide one of her blades out from her pocket diving it into his throat. She pushed the man off of her as he gasped for air. <span style="color: #a74ac7">"Having fun now?"</span> She questioned bitterly as she bolted off before the rest of the men reached their leader.<br/><br/>The darkness of night fall soon surrounded her, but all she could think to do was run. Run until she couldn't any longer. Being out in the middle of the woods with no food or shelter made her a prime target for the "roamers" as she called them, to snag her. She just hopped no runners were nearby. They were just as fast, if not faster than her. Maura was already weak from not eating in days and now with her wound...she knew she probably would last long. However, she tried to keep as much pressure as she could on her shoulder though she could feel herself becoming lightheaded from the blood loss. <span style="color: #a74ac7"><span style="font-style: italic">"Please...it can't end like this...not now..."</span></span> She thought to herself as her pace unwillingly started to slow. <br/><br/>The young brunette's vision started to blur, bright orbs of light seemed to appear out of nowhere ahead of her. All she could think to do was to go towards them as she heard the snarls and growls of the undead creatures behind her. The faint outline of walls appeared in the horizon as she collapsed onto the ground, the sounds of gunfire seeming far off in the distance as she blacked out.</div>