Madi kicked her foot hard against the wall, trying to let all the anger out by destroying the worn black flip-flop she was wearing, but it only resulted in a nasty cut on the back of her pale heal. Letting the blood flow onto the path she let out a frustrated screech, because although she hadn't done anything wrong, still Mrs Crocker, the orphanage housemother had felt the need to give her kitchen duty for a week. Sighing, Madi pushed back her long black straight silky hair and began to walk back to Mrs Crocker's Orphanage. She had been there since she was very young, when she had been left on the doorstep and raised there. Plenty of young couples had come to look at her for adoption but after taking in her straight black hair, dark formidable blue eyes, ghost white skin and scowl permanently placed on her face, they were rather put off. Madi was beautiful, but she could terrify anyone with one glare. When she dragged her feet through the front door she unfortunately found herself face to face with Mrs Crocker. She was a short, rather plump woman who wore plain grey dresses and her hair tied back in a tight bun and she shouted "Madison LeStrange! Where have you been? Go to the kitchens at once and clean up!"
"Yes, Miz Crocker" Madi chanted and she headed towards the basement where the kitchens were.
It was gone midnight when Madi finally got up to the dormitory she shared with 16 other girls, ages three to thirteen. Madi was one of the two eleven year olds and she and her best friend Connie had to look after the younger girls since the twelve and thirteen year olds couldn't be bothered. Instead of crawling into bed straight away she sat on top of the hard mattress and thin sheets and stared into the darkness. She liked the dark, and she had a knack of working her way around in pitch darkness which is what usually happened. It was boiling hot in the dormitory so Madi went over to the open window and slipped out onto the sill. She stretched her arms up and clutched the side of the roof before hoisting herself up onto the tiles and walking over to the place where she kept her most treasured belongs. She didn't have much, only a small wooden box a kind old woman had once given her in which she kept the things, the note that had been with her on the doorstep where she was first found, a few trinkets that had become special to her over the years and then the locket. The locket never actually was in the box because Madi kept in permanently fastened around her neck. It was solid gold, with a medium sized heart on the fine chain. Engraved on the front was a rose and on the back was engraved; Madi. When you opened it engraved inside was the words; Amor tendit ultra stellato, which meant 'Love that stretches beyond the stars.' Madi sat on the rooftop watching the stars twinkling in the black sky and read the note for the ten millionth time. It read:
This is my beautiful baby girl.
Her name in Madison Morgana LeStrange.
Please take care of her; I love her with all my heart!
Clutching the note and her locket, Madi closed her eyes and whispered into the night "Please, one day, come and find me. I love you so much, and if you love me as much as you say, you'll fight until you're free!"