Run for your life - part 6

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A million and fourty-five heartbeats after she heard the first voices, they started to fade away. Apparently, some of the people lost their intrest in her, since she didn't express any change in her condition. Some of them remained, though, and the demandings didn't slow their flowing. They continued on and on, snapping accusations at her face.

The mercyful remained at her side, but she started to fear that he - after some time she noticed that the voice was from a man - would lose his intrest too. So she tried even harder to move any part of her body.

The effort wasn't doing any progress, so she changed her path. She directed all her will on moving her hand. All her strenth, all her thoughts were concentrated on her right hand. She concentrated on lifting one finger. She tried hard for some hundreds of heartbeats until she could lift the tip of her thumb.

To be continued