“I am going to have to carve out a new face. A face that can pay the price I need to pay. I am going to become monstrous,” Malini said, tasting the weight of the words upon her lips, her tongue. “For so long I have only wanted to escape and survive. But now I am free, and for the sake of my purpose… for the sake of power,” she admitted, “I am going to become something other than human. Other than simply not good. I must.”
