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I reach a fence. It certainly isn't the first I've had to climb in this journey, and probably not the last. I look down at him, my baby, strapped to my chest so I don't drop him. I stroke his cheek... warm. I had to drug him for this, he would have cried and people would have got suspicious. A woman running through the dark, scaling fences, with a baby strapped to her... isn't something you see every day. Anyway...

I climb the fence. There aren't any barbs or anything, this fence isn't to guard anything. If only they knew what I knew. There'd be metres of razor wire going higher than you could see. They might even destroy it, thing like this... so many things could happen...

I reach the top and awkwardly scramble over to the other side. Climbing down, I reach the bottom. I feel him stirring, I have to be quick.

I run into the forest. I don't have much care for where I'm going, it's not as if you can miss it. Rivers are hard to miss when they snake across a forest like this. I hate evergreen trees, they're like trees without any soul. They're far worse than the fence, foreboding.

I reach it, finally. You could see why someone might not notice it, it looks like any other river. The plants do seem to be more green though... maybe I imagine it. I take him out of the straps. I'm worried about this, what if I'm wrong? What if he drowns... or gets swept away?

I keep my resolve, and I kneel down by the river. I look at him, for the last time, as an imperfect human. A product of two wrongs. I don't want to look any longer. I lower my arms and he is submerged in the water. I leave him there for about a minute, I don't breathe... it hardly feels right.

I lift him out, he's sleeping soundly. I check him over, he's still breathing, his pulse is fine. Then I notice it... his skin... it's beautiful. You can barely even notice the texture, it's so smooth, such the right shade.

Tears of joy come to my eyes. It worked.

[Comments]Yeah.. I know it's not the best, but I needed to start. This will probably be improved later.[/comments]