Prologue

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Cries of agony bellowed through the echoing halls as the woman clutched the sheets beneath her for dear life, her fellow sisters surrounded her, chanting and grunting in an almost animalistic fashion.

This provided little comfort, childbirth is never easy, but this... it felt like she was being ripped apart.

"It's happening too soon, we weren't ready."

"Preserve... the child... at all costs..."

A sharp wail brought their gaze back to the woman, all they saw was red.

"Blanc!"

"She's losing too much blood."

"We cannot lose this baby."

"Get it out...! Quickly...!"

"Tanner Wait!" A hand stopped the hook before it pierced the woman swollen belly

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"Tanner Wait!" A hand stopped the hook before it pierced the woman swollen belly. "There has to be another way."

"There's no time! If we don't act they'll both die!"

"Do it...! Now!"

The hook plunges into her stomach, splitting flesh and tearing muscle, the woman's wails and whimpers had become bone chilling screams.

"Share it. Share the pain."

The chanting and grunting around them slowly became full on wailing as if they were experiencing the same torture as her, booming thunder crackled and roared outside, intensifying with each passing second of this maddening scene as both reached their deafening climax.

Then dead silence...

It was finally broken when the cries of a newborn filled the air.

"It's a girl." The one holding the baby announced.

The woman raised her shaky hand, trying to reach out for her new daughter.

"Susie..." She mutters before her hand goes limp and falls and the last bit of colour drained from her face.

"Bring her to me..." A wheezing voice ordered from the darkened corner of the room, gnarled, boney hands extended out, the now sleeping newborn being placed and cradled in them

" A wheezing voice ordered from the darkened corner of the room, gnarled, boney hands extended out, the now sleeping newborn being placed and cradled in them

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"You're going to be... so beautiful..."

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The Ballad of

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Hope you enjoyed this first part, special thanks to NostalgiaGoth03  for helping me come up with the title and the story idea, see you in the next one ❣️❣️❣️

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