an illusion, surely but she didn’t mind. it was the first beautiful thing she had seen in quite some time and she was seeing it here, with her sister. a sense of belonging – a re-connection to a girl once separated from her. “a gift?” it was different, she’d never thought of it in such a way. no. thought them to be dangerous - thought them to be bad. papa had intended to raise a warrior, raise a weapon.
USE TO KILL, FIND THEM. HURT THEM.
gifts that she had used to kill. gifts used to kill the ones that had made her this way in the first place. “
It was true, they were both raised to be weapons, both raised for evil. But for Kali, it was different. She had had a life before being taken whereas Jane? She had been there since birth. She had known no different. Kali? She had a life before this, nine years of it. And she knew that there was no true evil inside either of them.
“Yes, a gift,” she said, nodding at her sister, as though trying to encourage her to agree. “What we have, Jane, is SPECIAL. The bad men want us to hide, but we deserve so much more than that. We shouldn’t have to hide because they are afraid of us.”
Kali lowered her hand, so the butterfly disappeared and looked at her sister properly, giving a faint smile. It was like she was... complete. Now she had her sister, it felt as though nothing could ever go wrong again. “I’ll take care of you now, okay?”