Marie closes her eyes, and the memory begins. Marie is young about eight years old. She is sitting in an activity room all alone at an orphanage, staring at a vase of flowers when suddenly, she hears a voice.
"Hey, horns!" She turns her head. He it the leader of the boys who always torment her. She grimaces at him.
"Aren't you cheeky, even though you're not even human." She hears the whimpering of a puppy, and she is startled. She gets up from the chair she is sitting in And turns around to see the rest of the boys who torment her, and one is holding the puppy that she had found and had been taking care of for the last few weeks. She starts running to get to the puppy.
"Why you...!" But one of the boys grabs her and holds her back.
"Whoops!" says the boy as he grabs her, and all the boys are laughing.
"Let it go! Stop it!" She is struggling to get out of his grip.
"This is the first time I've seen you so upset." The leader says.
"You never cry or laugh, that's so creepy!" The one holding the puppy says. The leader gets close to her.
"Cry! Cry and beg! If you don't..." The leader grins.
"We'll have to hurt the dog instead of you." She kicks him in the stomach and he stumbles back.
"Why you..." He gestures to the boy holding the dog.
"Hey, beat the crap out of that dog!" The boy grins and punts the dog, and it slams against the wall, whines, and falls to the floor. She is dumbstruck, but continues to struggle. The leader laughs.
"Instead of going straight at you, this way seems to be more effective." He walks over to a table, and takes the flowers out of a vase.
"Hold it still." He then starts to beat the dog with the vase, the dog crying and whining the whole time, blood spattering the side of the vase that made contact. She just stands there, unable to move or even struggle.
No way...something like this...w-why? Why? A girl runs into the room.
"Stop that!" It was the girl who was nice to Marie a while back. The leader looks at the girl.
"What? But you were the one who told us about the dog." Marie's head snaps to attention and turns to look at the girl.
"But...but...Going this far..." She looks at Marie and covers her own mouth with her hands.
"I'm sorry, it's because I told them about it." Marie's head just drops as if she's given up. The leader's head comes up.
"Hey, it's not moving anymore." He laughs.
"That was fast." Marie can see the pool of blood flow into her vision, and she raises her head, her expression one of shock. She remembers something she heard before. When you're miserable...you need someone...even more miserable than yourself. The girl who she thought to be her friend has her eyes covered, and is apparently crying, but she has a smile on her face.
"The ones who aren't human...The ones who are inhuman....ARE YOU!" The boy who is holder from behind's body simply explodes into a splatter of blood on the wall behind her. The leader looks surprised as he, and the rest of the children in that room, are reduced to splatterings of blood and visceral lumps that drip from the walls and ceiling. The entire room is painted with what were four children. Marie, covere in blood and gore, walks over to where her puppy lies dead, falls to her knees, cradles it's body in her arms, and begins to sing a song to it, crying, and rocking it back and forth.
She walks with Genevieve into the orientation classroom after the session ends.
((italics are thought, and when it switches to red, it shows that she snapped))
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