It's a terrible thing being born. I loved so much, but from within. I loved her from the inside. I could hear her thoughts, her voice, but most clearly her heart. As I developed she became ill and my instincts grew strong, so much stronger than she was. It was fear that drove me to it. I have no idea what made me so afraid but I had to get free. I felt like I was being crushed, for the world inside mother was just much too small.

You chew your way through, in doing so you sever the connection and carve your way out with your teeth. Every time one of us is born we kill our own mother. There is nothing more painful or more terrifying than feeling their mind go dark. Empty. Void. So from the start we run away to hide from everything, cold and wet with their severed life, shivering in the silence that mother left behind in her death.

That's when you hear it for the first time; Her, The All Mother. The voice that makes everything go away, for the understanding in it is not only vast but sympathetic, as she'd committed this very same crime once as well. She could soothe the pain away in an instant. 'I am here. I am your mama now. Come to me now, come to mama.'

Everyone in my family is an orphan. Why? Because that is the way. It is the shame and curse of being born.

-Index-

Prologue: Patricide

1: Eldest

2: The New Flesh

3: Night Terror

4: Carrigan

5: Shock and Awe Campaign

6: Bastard Daughter

7: Everything You Thought You Knew...

8: Champion

9: Stolen

10: Big Red

11: The White Death

12: Save My Baby

13: Child of My Body, Flesh of My Soul

14: I'm Sorry

15: They Came as Spartans

16: Honor

Epilogue: Devils Dance