A haunted man with a cursed soul is worse than a man with a dead one.

I recall that saying, remember it written in permanent marker on a train station wall.

It was the first and only time I ever ran away from home. I was thirteen, and my dad and Thorn got into a fight that turned bad for the both of them.

I tried to stop it. Thorn's fist got in the way of that.

Not sure why I ran away up until this day.

But that darn saying, can't get it out of my mind.

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