On my silent walk in a forest nearby, I saw something dark green and soft between two bushes. It had been trapped there, dirty, filthy, and alone, tangled in the small sharp branches. I thought it was just thrown away so I couldn’t resist opening it. The content of the backpack, because it was a green backpack, left me speechless. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Y1AUDz1Uk
It was a pair of scissors, razor blades, a rope, and, what I thought looked like sleeping pills, or maybe painkillers. I wasn’t sure. It also contained endless plastic bags, which I assumed would be used mixed with the other harmful supplements. Maybe they would then be tied over the poor creature’s head while taking their own life. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkX0HKHPymY
I took the backpack with me, concerned that an animal or perhaps a child would hurt themselves by mistake if I just left it to whomever to explore the gears in there. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyzu4iEmdU7
I was going, slowly and quietly, and without seeing where I was placing my feet. I just continued thinking about the whimsical, peculiar, green bag. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcEw2aIBltd
Suddenly, I was walking into something that was hanging in the tree right in front of me. I screamed so loud I was damn sure I had made myself deaf forever. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNfbXUaBV3g
This was unfortunately how I went mad. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBOxBoonTir
Ellie sat beside the table in the dining room. She was peeking at her mom who was sitting right next to her. She decided to ask her. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHv8qtW9W8s
”Mom… how is Nels? Can I go to him now?” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyQ5RX0k3w1
”Elle Madina, please don’t disturb your brother, you know that he is very sick, right?” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgsQggXRNr2
”Yes, I know…” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7SmulmXgP
”Right, now go and prepare for school, darling” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw2tpg5YO9I
On her way to school, she ran into Ingrid. Ingrid sighed and continued walking. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡljYEpXfLsk
”Wait!” Ellie shouted after her. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqlDgrWPzIB
”What? I’m late to work!” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcNuXQhXMuM
”I know how close you were to my brother and I was thinking…” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlopZmUEtHL
”What? Nels is not the same anymore and I don’t want anything to do with either you or your crazy family!” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgwPY7YiMji
Ellie felt how her eyes got shiny from some sudden tears, but she didn’t want Ingrid to notice. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGmtOBwrHPT
”Goodbye, you big crybaby!” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9VcX1uVLgj
Ingrid laughed and started her walk again. It wasn’t fair. Ingrid was an adult woman and was behaving like a bully against a girl who was just starting high school. Ellie turned around and ran all the remaining way to school with a big and nasty lump in her throat. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKmlByvCAEM
She couldn’t really focus on the school that day. Ellie was sweating and tears were dropping on the quiz paper. Her vision started to become blurry. She closed her eyes and opened them again, but still couldn’t see properly. What if she too was going mad? Could madness be contagious? She hopes not. She doesn’t want to end up like her brother. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBtWxXRJi8
Even if some part of her mind thought that he actually deserved it after what he did to her at that time. Of course, he did apologize. But it happened again, and again… 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnhTpRqK8mt
After school, Ellie went home. She needed a new pair of shoes and was going to ask her mother. She didn’t look forward to it. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0SG7ljaO3u
“Mom?” Ellie stood at the door opening and peeked at her mother sitting and watching some television. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpDzu7bdHFR
“What now, Ellie?” her mother replied with an annoyed voice. “Can’t you just go to your room and finish your homework instead of always bothering me and talking about disturbing your poor brother?” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡikLfDiVoSz
“But mom…” Ellie was nervous. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiOwYoqqULm
“Yes, what? Her mother turned around with an angry look in her eyes. She clearly had a bad day. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡutvOMAdeH0
“It doesn’t matter” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKf75A5hitN
Ellie turned her back to her mother and walked with slow and sad steps toward the stairs, hoping that her mother would follow her and become nice again. But she didn’t and as much as it was expected, Ellie just couldn’t help to feel disappointment. Ingrid saw Aline outside of the music store and hastened to open the door from the inside. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD6XEJM3CtS
“Oh, I just wanted to say hello, I had some errands to do nearby!” Aline explained in an apologetic manner. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGs6mzvkwyw
“Of course, sis, you’re always welcome here! Do you want some coffee? I can put some on in the staff’s room. I have lunch break now anyway!” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡprZjbumAu4
“Yes please, that would be nice” Aline looked shy. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFGirQexE8p
“Well, Ingrid, you know that time when we were...” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxEXhFVDV7I
Ingrid turned around, almost with the same shy expression as Aline. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUiXO7O3A3K
“Yes, I know what you’re thinking about…” Ingrid answered. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE2ZRjXHLXx
“Yes… it was a year ago. Today.” Ingrid blushed. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkiSE70pdzo
“I know”. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJhUsegM9jJ
“You do?” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgzyB0yxkv9
“Yes” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEt1mPJvetn
Silence. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwAW2sPeKJu
Both girls looked at each other and then started to stare at the floor. They both remembered. Ingrid was still holding the coffee pot in her right hand, prepared to pour some into the mug she was holding in her left hand. Aline placed herself in a chair beside the small and quite old-looking table. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfKnrnug0TS
“I just want you to know that I liked it very much” Aline just broke the silence. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSjoL2WYHX
“Me too, but I don’t know… it feels weird because… You’re like… My adoptive sister. Well almost at least” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKezXtbyzEy
“Carl has not adopted you, Ingrid. You just live with us.” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR9lzwN00Zs
“I know, but I always wish that he was my father, that’s why it feels weird with… you” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3RN7hoNPaa
“I can understand that, of course” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi8cl2my0QR
The girls looked at each other again, both with a sign of repulse on their faces. They were drinking their coffee in silence when Conrad stacked into the office. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlvumEs56ok
“Ingrid, what do you think you’re doing? You lazy coward, it’s people in the store!” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGm9jJKPUcc
Ingrid jumped up from the chair. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzKxSekIXOq
“I’m sorry, we forgot… I’m... Conrad? Are you drunk?” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTpZViBATN
Ingrid closed one eye and stared with the other directly at Conrad. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlKmLew9K8
“You are!” she shouted, higher than she’d expected.414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkeGquCqeHJ
“You don’t need to care about that, just do your goddamn job!” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkaatgNLbqw
Ingrid and Aline went out to the store. One customer was to be found. Conrad was yelling as if it would have been a hundred! 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY5nNtNtSMw
“See you at home” Aline slammed the door behind her and Ingrid sighed. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDmdBdRotbP
Cassidy nodded but felt extremely bored. The oracles were arguing again and wanted her opinion on some small simple task they were doing. She was tired too, and her eyes started to close themselves. All of a sudden she was hearing a sound from the crystal ball in the room behind her. She just heard the sound of someone whispering something. Yet she didn’t think about how she was able to even hear the sound with a stone wall in the middle.414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLv1MCgGfS
“Okay, my gentlemen. I need to go” she said to the oracles and walked down the hallway. 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0iu2BwdfRt
“But you barely listened, my Queen!” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkzdH9MPNBJ
“I give you permission to solve the problem on your own, I have some things to do!” 414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57ZBRJk2Xn
The oracles went silent.414Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4AGNWlOQQH
and then Add to home screen.