Then, somehow, I caught up to her. My arms around her, we landed hard on the walkway that stretched around the manor. My back to the stone, her on top of me.” The scent of burning flesh fills my nose and I cringe. “Everything after that was a blur. I was in shock, I think… But my back was so damaged the wound had to be cauterized. Joyce did it with an iron shovel from a set of fireplace tools.” That day was the closest I ever saw her to being worried for me. The entire time, she looked horrified, scared even. And yet, over and over, I can still hear her whispers, monster, monstrous creature,
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nooooooo omg WHAT IF she had wings, that's how she could catch up to Helen and say them and she burned her wings and now she doesn't have them anymore and that's why Joyce called her a monstrous creature???
