**Gaia**
I could hear everyone talking, but I didn’t know what to do. I knew what was in the vial I had grabbed; I just couldn’t leave it behind.
“Are the bad people gone?” Eva whispered to me.
I looked at my little sister. “I don’t know,” I sighed. “It looks like it, but…” I started, then stopped. I just had a feeling that we were not safe yet.
We were hiding in the shadows. Eva and I were still there with everyone, yet we were not. That’s the thing about shadows; it’s a different area often overlooked because it’s unknown.
But if you learn the shadows and understand them, they will protect you. I guess because I was considered an abomination and overlooked myself, that’s why I understood the shadows.
“Am I going to be a big sister?” Eva asked, hearing her family talk about their pu
