Friday, October 13, 2017

Secrets and Shadows: Day 11

Word Count: 66,009

Summary of Events:
Keeleigh tried to get a ride to work from her friend Olivia, but she started freaking out before they were halfway there. Emil sat in the cellar with the family because the Germans were shelling and thought about the Soviet invasion of the remainder of Poland, as well as the inaction on the part of Britain and France while everyone else slept. Keeleigh, with help and encouragement from her mom, actually got all the way to work in her costume and even engaged a family of guests on her own.

Excerpt of the Day:
"Even safe within the confines of the house war could be heard all around. Olga wished that she could keep her fingers in her ears to blot out the noise, and yet still be able to keep darning so Mama wouldn't scold her all at the same time.
Not that Mama was getting much knitting done at the moment, as Benedykt was utterly inconsolable and trembling with fright at the noise.
The din of the war was weighing heavily on all of them, and from the sounds of things there was some heated combat action going on between the Polish and German forces, and it seemed very close by too.
In fact, it sounded so close by that Olga was afraid that a bullet was going to come whizzing between the boards that covered up the window opening and hit one of them.
Olga's hands trembled as she darned the sock. Her stomach twisted, ill at the thought of her father and brothers out there, somewhere, in the midst of all the war and fighting.
She couldn't imagine how they'd had the courage to walk out the front door this morning and out into all that fighting. It seemed inconceivable that her father and brothers would have the courage to do such a thing.
Even if all the gunfire were to stop, Olga wasn't sure that she would dare set foot out the front door. The Germans were assuredly close enough that they would be able to see her step out of the door and shoot her instantly.
And, even with Zygfryd's talk about how she wouldn't have to go through purgatory to get to heaven, Olga still didn't like the idea of dying. The only people who died in the books she read were the enemies, the bad people, who cause all the trouble to the good people in the first place.
If she were to die then she wouldn't be like the good people in the books. She would be like one of the bad people. But, then again, all manner of innocent people in Warsaw and Poland had died at the hands of the Germans already.
Innocent people dying never happened in the books. The people who died always had done something to deserve their deaths. Few of the people in Warsaw and Poland had done anything to deserve their deaths. It was the Germans who all deserved to die because of their cruel and ruthless behaviours.
Olga finished darning the hole and managed to tie off the thread. She didn't want to take up another sock to repair, but she knew that Mama would give her a scolding if she didn't.
With how close the Germans were coming, Olga had noticed that Mama was becoming more and more irritable, proving that throwing herself into the various tasks that she was wasn't necessarily distracting her from the approaching enemies."

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