Snippet #2360300

Nevicata felt someone's hand on her shoulder and she looked, to see someone standing there, smiling ever so gently. Nevi whipped the tears with her sleeve, and whispered. "I don't want them to come back." her voice was like a tiny music box, elliegent and fine if not servery scared. Everyone was running around like chickens with their heads cut of, yet she could see in the corner of her eye her aunt and uncle across the way playing cricket. What a standing Neutrality they had! she thought as her tears started to dry into her cheeks.

"Perhaps we should help"
"That would be taking sides"
"Oh yes of course,"
"No one said this was going to be easy."
"Neither side did as I recall."

People running faster now, thank God people were getting out an officer tried to shove her back into a tent. She's too young to have to see all this, Nevi started baling. "Mommy, Daddy!" the officer left her to find his Superior. Nevi sat on the concrete as if she was waiting for them, a part of her wanted to see them still. A part of her wanted to run into her father's arms as he swag her in the air.