I always wondered what my fate would be when I was in The Above—if I had a destiny—and when I’d been Selected, I thought that I was cursed. But in truth, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. It gave me my monsters. It gave me a sense of purpose and a place that I now called home. It gave me love. I’d been captured by the monsters, and they’d given me everything I didn’t know I needed.
