1.Prologue

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Meredith
Age-16
7 years ago

"I really want to die today, and I mean it" even though I've said the same thing for a few dozen times today but I really meant it now.
"You're not fucking snow white Meredith, stop wasting your time talking to animals" She was my mother and had nothing motherly in her. I loved talking to the parrot my brother gifted me, he wouldn't have if the parrot did just as he said.

I relate to the parrot a lot, locked in a cage, checked, always abused, checked, everyone forgets its existence unless it shouts checked.

I got ready, wore my jump suit, put on the leather gloves and my training shoes and went to the training room.
"You're late"
"I know, not everyone resides in the training room as you do, brother"
"Talking to that thing again I assume, of course you were, you have no other friends" he emphasised on the words 'of course' and 'friends'.
I was never sent to a school but my siblings were, while they used to study and give tests, I was forced to train and be an assassin, not because I was strong and different, god I was only 4 since this torture started, my 'father', did not want his other children to get hurt and die. He called me a pawn in his game for him to sacrifice for him to win. I know these because he used to say them on my face.
"Weakass bitch-" he couldn't finish, I didn't let him.
"Kai I know you hate me and shit but that doesn't change the fact that I'm older than you and also am your sister. If calling me a bitch makes you feel better about yourself, you are nothing less than a dog yourself"
I could feel the eye rolling behind me. I'm tired of this shit.
"Father is calling us, we need to be in his office, now." On the door of the training room, what we call the blood room, was standing my oldest sister Estella. Huffing and puffing on her breath. Kai and I looked at each other left whatever we were holding and left for our call.

Someone is dead.

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