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created to help people know when they need Remedy before the risk of death occurs. When a person’s levels get too low or too high, there is a yellow flashing light and a steady beeping sound. The beeping speed and volume will increase as the need becomes more severe and the light will change from yellow to orange to red. A few people have claimed to see the orange light, but no one has claimed red. Red means it’s too late and you are about to breathe your last breath. 
    I never thought I would see the orange light, let alone the red. But as with all things, that was soon to change. 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

 
     
     
    CHAPTER 5
     
    At first it sounds like the wind breezing by my ears, but then it becomes more distinct. The shattering whistles. It’s coming for me. This time, I sense that it’s alone.
    I delicately fall to my knees and lower my left ear to the ground. I try to slow my breathing in order to focus on more than my heart thumping loudly against my chest. The whistle still sounds like it’s far away. I might have a shot this time. It’s not moving as fast as it usually does.
    Standing back up, I prepare myself to run. I won’t weave through the forest this time; I’ll just run straight to the single picturesque tree, or better yet, to the ocean as I now know it exists. The water will save me. I will be able to swim to a new life.
    When I pick up my foot, it’s as though it weighs a hundred pounds. I let it fall heavily to the ground and I think for a moment that it’s going to send cracks splitting through the earth. I do the same thing with my other leg and after moving only one full step, exhaustion overwhelms me. My bones and muscles all feel as though they were put through a meat grinder, leaving an even consistency of mush instead of the strength my body is supposed to have. Everything in me is screaming to lie on the ground and admit defeat. I can’t run anymore.
    “Evangeline…” I hear calling from the distance. At first I think it’s my mind playing tricks on me. “Evangeline…” The voice calls again. Looking up, I see him: Gavin, standing at the edge of the forest, motioning me to come join him. He’s wearing the blue shirt I love so much and I can see his eyes shimmering even from this distance.
    Concentrating on his face, I put one foot in front of the other. I’m not moving fast, but I’m going. His smile gets bigger with each step I take and he is animatedly waving, his hands high in the air, as though he has something great to show me.
    I want to yell out to him to keep moving. I need to warn him that there’s something out to get me and it won’t let anything stand in its way. My attempts come out in muffled squeaks. My voice is gone. I can’t notify him. I will have to find a way to get to him no matter what it takes- before something else does.
    In a moment’s blink, Gavin somehow disappears. I’m almost to the edge and now he’s gone. I whip my head around, wondering if I went the wrong direction. But he’s nowhere to be seen. I push myself to the edge of the forest, leaning up against the last tree in efforts to catch my breath. The field’s vastness is welcoming me back as though it has arms stretched to both sides that want to take me in an embrace. I’ve been here many times before and it knows me well.
    Movement in the distance grabs my attention as I see Gavin appear once again except now in the middle of the field. He’s still motioning me to follow him, this time more urgently. I try again to call out to him but to no avail. No sound is coming out of my mouth. Begrudgingly, I trudge ahead once again; this time my eyes are only focused on my legs as I watch both of them struggle to take one excruciating step after another.
    The field and I have been one for so long that I have no need to look up to know where I’m at. Inside of me, an automatic trigger is set off to tell me I’m precisely at the point of the field