‘Not much. Dint think I’d get out of camp anytime soon. It were somethin, weren’t it?’
‘Was somethin all right,’ he agreed. ‘Whole bloody camp thing was mental just about.’
Trey realised there was good and bad in the world, good and evil and all the roads that ran between. He had travelled them all, had walked them and backtracked them and he knew he’d never get a better chance at coming good than the road he was on. His friend beside him in the present and his brother waiting in the future and the demon that had him circled in fire was nothing to him now, nothing but bitter ashes in the past.
He looked towards the horizon and the blue sea waved him over; a good day was coming, a good life starting over.
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