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// Chapter 4-A: Squalls Before the Storm 
// Story: Life through Love 
// by SentientHydra 
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	I awoke to a rough tongue running up my snout, and a sharp hoof nudging my chest.

"C'mon Big Guy. Time to wake up..."

I wanted to kiss her for living, to kill myself for the scabbed-over bite marks that covered her neck.

A few beautiful minutes before my world began to fall apart, all over again.

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"Kill him! Why?!" Silver screamed the question with anger, anguish and bile in her tone, stance wide and wings outstretched to block the door.

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I stooped low to the stream, holding my mouth under the water not to drink, but to wash the taste of blood from my mouth.

I hated that taste almost more than I hated myself.