My human mother had died in childbirth, as far as I was aware. It had been before the monster apocalypse, and at first, no one had noticed anything different about me. I’d been placed into care. They thought I was a baby girl, but when my body started changing, the people looking after me didn’t want me anymore. The ones after that tried for a while, but they didn’t want me either. They found me horrifying to look at. They thought I had some awful disease or congenital malformation. The monsters rose when I was five. When it happened, the couple who’d been caring for me just… left. They packed
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