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ng cell, my own wrists bruised f
spirit still clung to the
cent of old blood lingering in the air. For si
id-killer agency, I had become nothing more than a ve
eighteenth birth
, my gray eyes staring blankly at
me like a ghost, replaying in my mind over an
er. I hid behind the crumbling wall of our burning home, my
air-it was, metallic and thi
reamed, her voice was ra
legs were glued to th
even in her fragile sta
human do agai
lips at the thought of
had, a whirlwind of power and
ve her eyes as they turned white. She collapsed to
hroat. Before I could think-b
"dirty blood," a disgrace, a creature born from
mptiness.,my blood used to enhance their own str
prised I had su
n to my execution has
my fingers tighteni
ally how it
my chest as I
fat
to forget, whose existence I had buri
me and my mother, she
he would have come for me. He would
, I stood by the door, waiting for
mother tried to defend him, try
I
ily. He never missed an event with the
ool, laughed at for
ared, he would h
six years in this cel
uel the very monsters
ever meant
echoed in my mind, a cru
often-not with respect o
rd. A
sacred laws of our kind by
fathered a hyb
them for t
him more-for pro
the rusting bars, my naeam. I wanted t
ged for help? When my mother
dless nights in agony, my blood d
e had ever seen me as his daug
r trying to reach out to my father and realizing it was pointless, he had
ce for even trying. That night, he beat me s
d wonder if things would have been different if I were like m
er come true. I let out a b
felt it. A shift
r at the edge of my consciousne
art p
n't a
h my mind, warm and f
ra
my body go
like a forgotten melody, s
mira, and I a
per, and for the first time in years, some
e only one t
w cle
t quiet plea for a reason. I needed to ho
t creep in-I would have to face the
... I wasn't as forgot
I whispered, my vo