Snippet #1018912

There was no more money; not for tickets, not for food, not even a place to stay the night. It had been days since Natalia had left New York on a train and once she started she just couldn't stop. There was nothing holding her in New York, nothing important enough for her to stay and risk disappearing like those countless others she kept hearing about at the news paper. Even the paper wasn't allowed to print the stories about the missing people and they had freedom of press. Natalia could only imagine what would happen to her if she was caught by these people who could control the news papers and TV stations.

Her run had been rather un-eventful considering how far she had gotten before the money ran out. Very few people traveling look at the people around them so there hadn't been any major issues with people discovering how much of a freak she was and those who got to close she was able to "persuade" to go another way instead of talking to her. She'd been able to find public showers a couple times so she wasn't completely gross but she wasn't a sweet smelling flower either so that didn't help in her freakishness.

Climbing off the final stop of her train, Natalia pulled her hood farther over the silvery-white hair in an attempt to block her ghostly face and eyes from the sun and people's attention. It was unlikely that she'd be noticed on the bustling platform but she didn't want to risk it after flying under the radar for so long. All she needed to do now was find a hostel or somewhere else to stay where she could find a quite corner until people forgot about her. It wasn't like her mother was going to miss her or look for her at all, her mother was probably rejoicing in her disappearance because it meant she didn't have to acknowledge the fact she had birthed a strange monster child.