[After several days of hiding out waiting in the apartment building, Alma couldn't take it anymore. It felt like everyone was out fighting and risking their lives but him... which he knew wasn't technically true, but he was too worried to count technicalities. He knew he should stay put. Knew he should wait for his friends to come back and for this all to be over, but... it was quiet now. Every day had brought fewer and fewer gunshots, fewer screams, and longer periods of quiet.
As night fell the boy gathered his courage and snuck quietly out of the apartment building. He wouldn't be gone long, or so he told himself. Just long enough to peek around in the places he last knew his friends to be.]
Uh... wandering at night! 7-17
hiding outwaiting in the apartment building, Alma couldn't take it anymore. It felt like everyone was out fighting and risking their lives but him... which he knew wasn't technically true, but he was too worried to count technicalities. He knew he should stay put. Knew he should wait for his friends to come back and for this all to be over, but... it was quiet now. Every day had brought fewer and fewer gunshots, fewer screams, and longer periods of quiet.As night fell the boy gathered his courage and snuck quietly out of the apartment building. He wouldn't be gone long, or so he told himself. Just long enough to peek around in the places he last knew his friends to be.]