I AM DYING INSIDE

Elowen shoved a frayed linen shirt into the bottom of her worn canvas backpack. Her fingers lingered on the coarse fabric as a whirlwind of agonizing, mixed feelings knotted in her chest. She had desperately yearned for this exact moment. For years, she had prayed to the Goddess for the day she could finally turn her back on the Ebonlith Clan and escape the cruel people she despised with every fib