Danielle’s+Assyrian+Attack

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Hi I’m Danielle. My family and I live in Sumer. My hut is a little small but I can keep clothing. Right now my mother is making masa, corn, and some papaya. My older brother, Jack and my father are blacksmithing. “RUN MY DARLING, RUN” my mother calls all of a sudden. I wonder why, but I realize the earth is shaking. Is it an earthquake? Now I hear hooves and people saying “GET THEM, GET THEM”. But I don’t run. I hide. Stuff like this has happen before. When I hide, they won’t find me right. Wrong. They find me, but don’t take me. The girl looks scared. I ask her “Are you me or them?” She doesn’t answer. Then she falls. I see an arrow. Okay so this is what goes through my head. //She was me. And the kids aren’t playing attack. It’s the Assyrians. I’ve got to run. But where? They’ve burned down half the city.// I stay there, but start to make a run for it but then I realized that there gone. =====

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I look around. I see they have taken my family. I can’t see them. I go over to the ziggurat. But I’m not there to worship the gods. I see swords. When I look at them I see my father crying, my mother crying, and Jack with his eyes closed and arms hanging by his side. Then I remember the girl. “NOOOOOOOOO,” I can’t believe it! The girl was my best friend, Danna. All of a sudden my neighbor comes out and says “Danielle are you okay are you alone?” I sniff, teary eyed, and say “Yes Rebecca, yes.” “Come and stay in my hut until were sure their gone,” “But my family,” “Right now it’s just you and me.” =====

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Inside her hut I get comfy because I’m probably going to stay there for a long time. She makes me some tea. I see that a fire still going outside. I start to worry. //What if I never see them again? I already miss them. My name was this close to being in their hands.// “Do you think I will see them again?” I asked all day. All she said was “We‘ll see” but I don’t want to see, I want to know. When I went to bed I worried. Not just for my own safety, but my family’s. =====

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I can’t believe it’s been 5 years. I want to see my mom. I’ve been an orphan for a huge part of my life. //Knock-knock.// That scared me I went and hid in the basement, but before I made it there I hear a high pitch scream. “Run, run,” it was Rebecca’s voice. I hid and ran. When I was down there, I saw a note. It said //I knew where your mother was, but I didn’t tell you because you could have gotten hurt. But now go and find her here’s a map.// I looked and there it was. Right in front of my eyes. I started on my journey. =====

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When I arrive at the Assyrians garden, I saw my mother first. I run over to her. We hugged, but before we finish I feel someone watching. It’s an Assyrian. I try to run, but he grabbed me. “Help me, help me!” “Oh another” he says while grabbing my mother. We scream and kick but he doesn’t let go. =====

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Around five minutes later we’re in a cell. “Help, help,” “Don’t even try, they can’t hear us,” She said. I stop, but I notice a latch on the floor. “Mom a latch, lets escape.” We start to open it and walk. When we walk I asked her how her time was. Of course, she said lousy. We get to our house, and I ask her where’s dad, right when he pops out of the door corner. Finally, again I ask where Jack is. She says he got hurt by an arrow and died. I was sad, but happy not to be an orphan. We were a family again=====