PART ONE: Rain or Shine

  The world is a cruel place

  People are disappearing without a trace

  Survival has become a race

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  Impossible, the concept of mercy or grace

  Governments lie to save face

  Closer comes death’s embrace

  Sister in Brother’s Care

  Hiding her from evil’s Glare

  The duo’s safety, their mother’s last prayer

  They struggle on, hold fast the bonds they share

  The sister an heir

  To an empty chair