Your blood ringed my lips as I rushed forth to gather you in my arms, but they wouldn’t even let me hold you once more. My eyes were only on you, as you slowly stopped crying and wiggling and breathing, the last drops of blood dripping out your chubby little neck like water from a leaky tap. The cup was passed around for all of us to drink. He slit your throat, a flash of unbearable pain, while a soldier about my age held a cup to collect your blood. I screamed and cried, but he held his knife to my throat and said he’d kill me, too, if I made one more sound. There you were, the next one to be sacrificed. Then they performed the ritual to make us brave. They gave us drugs, slitting our foreheads with razors so cocaine would go directly into the bloodstream. I would have gladly given my life for you, but it wouldn’t have helped. But already such a bright little girl! Laughing and chattering such pretty sounds. This refusal of the child catalyzes her recollection of what happened to her own baby when she was a child soldier. She refuses to take Martina’s baby, Sofia, should Martina die, because she prefers to remain focused on her education.
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