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Papa. Sweet Papa. With your endless stories and fairy tales, and the attic you gave me, the home you gave me. The family you became… The tears were trickling through her cracks as she continued. "After I had my second— episode on the field of my new school, all the kids stayed far away from me, and I was horrified to discover that my skin was turning grey and hard and my blond hair was going white." Macha blinked fast. "I stayed alone at that school until seventh grade, and a new girl moved to Niagara Falls, New York, from across the falls in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in Canada." Fae. "No one had really seen anything like her before, with her bright pink hair and turquoise wings too small for her to properly fly." The bakery. Her dragons. The theatre… "She had the most amazing magic." Macha smiled a bit through the tears. "She played around with clay all the time, making countless tiny dragons, and her power was bringing those clay dragons to life, literally." She made me Alba… The fractured shards of a memory exploded from her mind. Fae, dead, beside her. Little dragon Alba whimpering and running to Fae. A man's cruel laugh as he raised his boot and stomped down on the little dragon, crushing and killing her. "She was the only one who wasn't afraid of me, even after I had my third episode in the middle of class and cracks began to appear on my face." Brave Fae. "We were in the park one day, 2 years later, goofing off, when we saw a van –which we later found out to belonged the R.A.C.– coming slowly around a bend in the road. Curious, we watched as two women slipped out of it, walking casually towards a winged man, some distance away, rocking his baby back and forth in his arms." The tears streaming down her face turned into those of silent rage. "They shot the man, killing him, and we ran towards them, shouting. We were too late. They threw the baby into the river and drove away." Macha clenched her fists. "After that day, we saw one more R.A.C. officer stalking a young girl, ready to shoot her. This time, we were ready, and knocked him out while the girl escaped. We hid, and when he came to and got back into his car, we followed it, and found that it was headed towards Seattle." Fae… "Fae decided to make 105 gargoyles to hide around the city after she had animated them, and act as spies and watchdogs. That same day, a R.A.C. officer broke into Fae's house in an attempted assassination, while we were having a sleepover. He kidnapped us both, and drove us the long way West to Seattle to interrogate us. He didn't know that all Fae's gargoyles were following. We never found out why he wanted us, as we escaped as soon as he parked, the gargoyles covering us, and we stayed, hidden in Seattle with no means of going back, and began rescuing people from the R.A.C. using the gargoyles as spies." We were so scared, so naive… "A few months later, we were found, and she was killed. I escaped, and, well… I guess I've sort of continued our mission…" Fae, excited to show me something. Fae, taking off in the air and properly flying for the first time in her life. Fae, pursued by a R.A.C. helicopter. Fae, falling o the ground, wings sawed off. Fae, stabbed in the chest five times as an officer holds me back, impossibly strong. Fae, dead.
(halfway done!)