Chapter 262

• ELENA
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• This week felt different. My legs didn’t shake as much when I walked down the hallway anymore. I ate a full plate at lunch without having to force it, and when I looked in the mirror this morning my face didn’t look so thin and gray. I even caught myself humming again while I folded a towel, the same old tune I used to do in our tiny kitchen back home. It wasn’t much, but it was something. I was starting to look like me again, or at least the version of me I remembered before everything got taken away.