“I did. The Spirit Kingdom was a marvel, truth be told. I can’t accurately describe what it’s like for someone to experience wind for the first time in their life. That invisible pressure that blows past you, cooling your skin and sparking life, swaying the branches of green trees and tossing your hair to the side … simply enthralling. It was frustrating trying to learn how to speak louder. The low volume of my voice, developed from a life of mumbles and whispers here, didn’t translate well there. I also suffered from hearing damage that night everything went to crap at the foster home. But I
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