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Weekly Contest #187
Chapter 1 Home Sweet Home I look down at my lap. There it was, the thread I couldn’t stop picking at. Don’t pull at it, Lys, or your dress will fall apart. I know that’s what she’d say if she were here. But as accepting as Lula was of me, she wasn’t the kind of girl who wandered through the Under in her free time. Not that any particular girl was that way. Sure, some may find themselves in the smoke-filled alleyways and garbage-laden streets out of a kind of morbid curiosity, but this was frowned upon. Illegal, even. Well, illegal...
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