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a long lost chapter of my forgotten novel damnation.
(the loss of niekos child)
((VERY GRAPHIC))

"Nieko sprints through the wooded environment, grasping her young daughter, "Essence's" hand tightly as they desperately try to outrun the eagerly searching voices that pursue them. She leaps over fallen trees and bolts through thorn covered bushes. As they run, they hear the screams of a man say, "their over there!" Nieko slides to a stop, panting heavily as her daughter hugs her leg tightly, softly crying. She looks around, realizing shes run right into a dead end; surrounded by towering cliffs on all sides. She pants harder, panic setting in as she looks to essence. She lets out a fearful shrill as she looks up to Nieko. Nieko, turning to face behind her, seeing the slave trackers burst through the foliage, surrounding them immediately. Nieko grasps at essence protectively, letting out snarls and intimidating screams in a protective protest as they stair down the barrels of several guns. One of the guards steps forward and nieko lunges, side stepping with lightning speed just in time for the bullet to slice over her cheek and embeds into the rocky cliffs behind them. She immediately closes the distance pointing her fingers together and lunging her hand into the throat of the tracker, her nails piercing into the skin. As she grips his wind pipe she head butts him, breaking his nose and sending blood splattering all over her face and chest. As his head is thrown back his windpipe slides out of his neck and he falls to the floor gurgling desperately as he tries to breath through his blood. She turns aggressively and lunges at another tracker but is stopped by a loud (BANG!) and she stops, still staring into the eyes of her would be victim as an immense burning pain slowly spreads through her side. She takes a labored gasp and looks down seeing that her entire left side is now crimson red. She grabs her side to feel her fingers fall into a very deep gash carved into her side. She goes to take another step but immediately the pain overwhelms her and she screams falling to her knee. She painfully looks up to see her owner slowly walking towards her, ...