POV Esther

  Location: Cave system under Abuja, Nigeria

  "You deserved it, and worse, you pieces of shit." I spit at the charred corpses in disgust and extinguish my blazing right palm. Now that the fight was done, I allowed myself to wince in pain and hold my scorched eye with my left hand and grind my teeth to try to soothe the pain. It was completely fucked. Blinded and weeping, some foul liquid, but I didn't regret it.

  I needed to perform the sacrificial burning to get the strength to break out of the handcuffs those sick fucks kept me in to use me as they pleased, but it was worth it. So very worth it. The physical strength and heat my fire could now produce easily allowed me to overpower these weaklings and sacrifice their fate lines to my flame.

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  It's just a shame their fate was so small that it didn't give me even a quarter of what my eye gave me for all eight of the fuckers.

  'Pathetic bastards until the end.' I kick the closest corpse and go through their blue cubes to find any food, water and weapons I can before straightening back up and wandering deeper into the tunnels, a sneer of hatred plastered across my face. 'I need to find more men and fate to burn.'