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Spare the rod and spoil the child—proverb.

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Nebechi's POV:

I know what I saw. The unexplainable fear that had gripped me as the old woman's head rolled off her body. She had wanted her money—for kidnapping me. I'd seen these scenes in movies, used to them because I thought I was cynical. Today, as the shock spread over my body, I realized I was just a little girl, a wimp and nothing more, nothing less. I mean, I couldn't even cry. The leader had even wanted me to chop the old woman's arms. The voilent jerks her body made as I watched her life disintegrate was like the...