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what drove her to nursing school.
    Sunlight majestically tinted the initially azure sky with a variety of shades of gray. Lara shuddered and sighed. As she went deeper into the woods, she'd had this uncanny feeling and it really scared her.
    ‘‘I hope I won’t get mauled by wild animals…’’ She muttered silently. In the past few months, there had been reports of animal attacks but she was unable to shake the feeling of helping someone who was in pain. She nervously skimmed around and there he was, a man who seemed to be gasping for his life. Her heart pounded against her chest and she hurried to where he lay. The man seemed to have crawled quite a distance, probably to look for help but to no avail. And this only worsened his already fatal wounds. It was quite a surprise that he was still alive.
    ‘’Hey, shhhhhhh…’’ ‘‘Save your energy, don’t speak, your body needs it more’’ Lara said to the stranger in pain.
    ‘‘I am a nurse, I will do my best to help you..’’ She continued.
    Lara worked quickly applying her basic nursing first aid training to the bleeding man. Despite the pressure she applied the crimson pool of blood darkened, and the stain on the man’s attire spread from his nape to his stomach. Lara did her best to close his wounds hoping that he would survive….
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    The man lay as unconscious on the comfy bed in Lara’s guestroom like a lifeless cadaver and just as sallow. His pulse was rather thread and Lara looked at him thinking that he was gone for sure. Nonetheless, she still felt that there was a chance that he would still wake up. She tucked him in and stared out in space shortly wondering what could have happened to the man.
    Al along, Lara wondered what made her bring a man she did not even know to his home. She could have even called an ambulance which would have taken him to hospital. This is what she would have done on a regular day but this time, she did not understand what got into her that she decided to bring a stranger to her home. What if he was a gang member who was being hunted? What if the people who had hurt the man followed her home?
    All these thoughts raced through her head but her instincts told her not to call the authorities. She really hoped that she had made the right decision. Ever since she was a young girl, she was always encouraged to trust her instincts and sometimes it landed her in trouble. She hoped that this was not one of those times.
    The fading of the sunlight had also translated to the fading of the mild heat. Wintry air twirled around taking with it every single lick of warmth that it could get. She hurried and closed the windows, cold air was sipping in and she had already started shivering. She watched the leaves scud randomly over the earth and take tiny flights into the windy air. She tossed her head back and raised her eyes towards the sky and a nervous smile spread across her cheek. The trees swayed their branches like the arms of a cheering soccer crowd and they looked hypnotically beautiful in their bit of chaotic dance. Her mind relaxed a little and she felt some happiness of her life bubble up from within when she remembered her childhood days. How she would spin in the wind with her arms stretched out, with spread out fingers and she deeply inhaled.  The wind carried the beautiful fragrance of the woodland, which was an essence of her days as a little girl...
    Lara was rather exhausted but she was not about to leave his patient alone, she felt she had to stay beside him, at least until he woke up or God forbid … he flat-lined.
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The blackish dawn sky slowly but surely turned into a dim grey and the illumination of the clusters of stars became lethargically lackluster. Millions of the night time stars in the vast ebony sky started hiding their glow and got bit by bit dissipate, as if someone was going to come and find them. Divergent birdies were softly flying in the beautiful sky and