You are a 8 year old Somalian boy, it was a normal day, you wake up at 5 AM to go to work at the carpet makers. Around noon you see many jeeps drive past your workplace towards the centre of your village and not soon after you hear gunshots and screaming.
[[Walk towards the centre of the village]]
[[Find a place to hide in your workshop]]
You franticly search for a space to hide. You can either try to climb into the attic of the bulding or hide between some boxes of fabric.
[[Hide between the boxes]]
[[Try to climb into the attic]]
You find a space between some boxes of fabric and lay there. You here gunshots coming from the centre of the village.
[[Go to the cente of village]]
[[Stay between the boxes]]
You decide to stop sewing together the rug your working on and walk curiously down the dirt road towards the centre of your village. A man with a gun comes towards you and grabs you by your arm, dragging you to a group of other children.
[[Stay with the group of children]]
[[Try to run]]
You try to climb up into the attic but slip and fall backwards to the ground. Your leg is broken, you scream in agony. A soldier comes and places a gun against your head. Everything goes black.
[[Begining]]
You panic, you start running away from the group trying to find your parents. A soldier hits you with the butt of his rifle and brings you back to the group.
[[Stay with the group of children]]
After a several minutes a soldier comes and tells all of you to follow him, and anyone who doesn't will be shot. You see that he is not lying as he immediatly shoots a child that was only a few feet behind you. You and the rest of the children follow the man to a wall were many adults, some of whom you know, are blindfolded with theyre hands tied behind theyre backs. The man tells you all to form a line, and one by one he tells each child to shoot one of the adults. He is getting closer to you.
[[Attempt to run]]
[[Stay where you are]]
You break into a sprint trying to get to an alley way behind you. Theres a loud crackling sound from the area behind you, you collapse to the ground and a sharp pain begins intensifying in your back. You cant move, you feel a cold piece of metal against the back of your head. Suddenly theres a loud sound. Everything fades to black.
[[Begining]]
The man gets to you, he places a pistol firmly in your hand, you can barely hold it up, he tells you to shoot a women directly in front of you.
[[Shoot the woman]]
[[Shoot the man]]
You point the gun at the man and pull the trigger, the man falls to the ground and you feel a sharp pain in your back. You collapse and feel the blood leaving your body, everything fades to black.
[[Begining]]
You pull the trigger and the gun snaps back your wrist and a splash of blood sprays across the wall in front of you.
Congratulations, you are now a child soldier.
You leave your hiding spot and walk down the road towards the centre of the village, a man walks up to you and grabs you by the arm and takes you to a group of children.
[[Stay with the group of children]]
[[Try to run]]
You stay between the boxes, its getting dark now. Your starving, you decide its safe and go to walk home. As your going up the street you realise how quiet it is, its as if no one is in the village. You run home and find your house to be empty, your parents are gone. After walking around town you decide your right and the village is empty. You begin walking to the next village to get some food and see if your parents are there, but while walking down the road a truck stops next to you and 3 men tell you to come with them. They are soldiers, and soon you will too.