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She had put down her journal which she had been writing in a few moments ago. She paused as she stood up from her small room (it wasn’t home sweet home but hey, the small things count) staring at her collection of paintings on her wall. Her older sister had painted them (her hands being as steady as wood) and had given them to Rosen as a present. Rosen’s gifts laid not in art (as her hands moved constantly from left to right without thought) but rather in music and writing. Mr. Elwood would joke,” Maybe the Angel blessed her with two gifts!” Of course he would never repeat that outside of his house. If he did, he would face a longterm sentence for saying untrue things about their patroness and deity. People there were quite temperamental about unkind things said about the deity. Make one false statement and you’d likely be dead in a heartbeat. Rosen wasn’t exactly the greatest painter in the world, she could paint here and there, and didn’t exactly have the neatest when she wrote (it looked like chicken scratch to everyone else) but she knew how to string words to flow into a rainfall of greatness. Her voice matched her face, young and youthful, but her manners, morals, and thoughts were not common for fourteen …show more content…
No, what she thought of was something around the lines of worrying about the state of the outside world. Not everyone had an Angel deity to protect them, after all. Their deity would only help the people on Raleigh. Not that many people had thought to feel bad or even think positively of the others outside of Raleigh. No one thought of them in the highest regards. They would blame them for their problems (like shortage of food or injured people) even though both were facing the same things (and reacting

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