Her head hung for a moment. She had been yelling at those men, hoping maybe she could change what happened. She finally looked up at the Beyonder, eyes full of tears.
No.
No.
She wasn’t back here. She couldn’t be. But she felt them clear as day, the tight hands around her arms, her flailing kicking legs. The grunts of pain from her father.
And once again she could do nothing but cry and scream.