Age: 6 to 10

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Mum loved me, I knew she did. And yet it all changed one bleak, miserable night.

I knew mum... She wasn't meant to be someone's hero. She wasn't meant to tuck me into bed and brush my hair in the mornings.

Not many knew, but my mum, my sperm donor and myself. Why. That was a question I asked every time to myself when she brought strange men to that house.

I realized when I was younger, I often heard the quote, "Home is where the heart is." I feel like I was doused with so much hate and unloved. She wasn't a mother. She didn't take care of me. She was nothing. And he... He wanted an heir. Someone to take his business. He no longer wanted to be a Guard Dog.

He was nothing. By the time Red came out, White had already destroyed many houses, buildings and parks. White was furious. Red was in sorrow. And Alice, she was frightened.

White is dangerous. Red is blinding. Alice is faithless. White is me. Red is not. Alice is...

Mother named me, Victoria. Father named me Emmaline. Mother called me, child, sick, nuisance. Father told me it will be up to me rid of the mysteries surrounding London.

Father is weak. Mother is weak. I ordered Maria's death. Found broken, bleeding, no womb. Jack came back for a brief moment. Father found dead in his office. Unknown poison.

They created me. And yet I made myself.

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