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【 reseda, 2017 】
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━━ Stevie was a pretty girl.
She may not have been everyone's type, but she knew she was pretty. She could force a sparkle in her eyes in a way she hadn't been able to naturally achieve since she was a child. She had a charming smile, though she had abandoned the blinding one that was once so beloved, as well as a laugh that only twinkled in distant dreams.
So it was funny that she knew ugly as intimately as she did.
The scars that marred her skin and the chain around her wrist were only physical reminders of just how ugly she really was, and somehow, they weren't enough.
Stevie didn't remember much about her life before the Red Room. Sometimes, she wasn't entirely sure that she ever did have a life before then, despite the dreamy images of a brown skinned girl with a giant flower tucked behind her ear, who was happy.
She had her ugly moments as a kid, she was sure of it. She was stubborn and craved adventure: that had never died.
But in the Red Room?
She became hateful and full of fiery rage with the patience of God herself ( not that she actually believed in that shit ). She had gained a thirst for blood. The act of committing murder was no more difficult than the act of breathing.
For men like Dreykov, that wasn't enough. He thought she could do better. In his opinion, better consisted of pulling information from people. If it meant she had to sleep with them, so be it. If that didn't work, Dreykov expected her to rip their targets apart until they offered up their own children in their stead.
And she wasn't considered the best of her class by saying no.
Ugly was ingrained into her.
It was no longer stupid, little temper tantrums. It was despicable behavior: she was predatory and cruel and merciless. The saddest part is that she believed that she was always destined to end up this way. Whether she had been taken and suffered through the psychological conditioning and chemical subjugation or not, she was always going to end up this way.
