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"Maximum," Says the girl in a low, rich tone when I'm close enough to hear her, "Know that I mean you no harm. Again, we are one in the same. I only wish to join you and your flock in your quest to destroy the monsters who created us; the ones who are trying to infiltrate natural selection." Her voice seems to pour from her throat like chocolate, dark and sweet.
"Infiltrate natural selection?" I repeat, confused.
"Yes, Maximum. They are attempting to raise the human race to superiority beyond the capabilities of natural selection. In the process, they will ruin and kill millions if not stopped. I know your quest. I am as much devout to it as you."
I'm still walking towards her, slowly, cautiously, and I catch glimpse of her eyes. They're wide and equipped with thick, dark lashes. They look like pools of midnight, glittering slightly in the setting of the desert sun. Her wings rustle, and then tuck away, into her back.
"How can I be sure?" I ask, absently touching my own wings.
"Because, when I heard the plans of the one in charge whilst growing my wings and feeling the pain of others die around me, I began to realize that my choice in becoming an assasin was a grave mistake towards your flock. It is painfully insulting towards myself to admit it, but I must. I first felt what death was like through my own body, and when I awoke, I found I could feel it through the deaths of others. They killed me, Maximum, and then they made me into you."
"If you died, then how are you here? You spin a fine tale. I still refuse to believe I can trust you with my flock."
"I was not always this way, Maximum. I was born a human girl, I lived a normal life. It was when I sought to be free of normalcy that I died. The School took me and transformed me. The same way a caterpillar dies whilst becoming a butterfly, so my heart stopped beating and my brain stopped functioning. I do not even remember my life before what it is now; I know only the information I acquired from the scientist's minds."
"So we should trust you because...?"
"Because I am a part of you now. I am one of you, a rare breed, a hybrid freak of nature. So were others at the school, and I felt their deaths; I looked upon the face of death myself, and through the eyes of so many others who never woke again. I could not kill you-whether directly, or indirectly by means of a scientist-without feeling your death curl around my mind like a claw. What has happened in the case of death, is mortifying, and I have, in repentance, solely devoted myself to protecting your life, and the lives of your flock members."
She extends her hands emptily, openly and bows her head, "You have a trained assasin indebted to you now."
"Indebted?" I say, flabbergasted.
"You see, those robots were chasing me. You provided a perfect opportunity to destroy them. You are their primary target, you see."
"And so you're indebted to us?"
"Surely, had I not run straight to you, I would've been overcome. It is an element of surprise I lacked, which you, in turn, provided."
She came closer to me, one arm extended.
"Maximum," She nods as she shakes my hand. She turns to the rest of the flock behind me.
"Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, Angel, Total," there is more subordinate nodding and hand shaking. She approaches Fang last, clearly seeing his disposition.
"Fang. You needn't be paranoid so. I only wish to help you," Reluctantly, Fang takes her hand. He holds on for a brief moment, in which his eyes go wide. He snaps his hand away.
"What the hell was that!" He growls, staring at the girl.
"I meant to show you I do not wish any fear from you towards me. I apologize; the vision I sent you must have taken you by suprise. It is my mistake; physical contact livens the memories."
"Say what now?" I ask, puzzled.
"I believe I sent you a memory as well, Maximum. You saw what I saw through my eyes when I sent it to you. I can send thoughts, recieve them, as well as I can send and recieve memories and emotions. Physical contact intensifies them; while your own senses far exceed the human standard, mine are tenfold yours. Fang must have been hit by a diluted taste of them. The result, I say, is quite shocking." She folds her hands neatly together.
"Who are you?" I step back a little.
"I told you. I am your excelled counterpart."
"What's your name then?"
The girl stops, breaks eye contact and furrows her brow. Her mouth opens slightly as if to say something and then closes again. Her shoulder slump, defeated.
"I do not know. They never even gave me a name. I am sure I had one before, but I cannot recall it. I am just a rogue killer now. Just a rogue..."
"Then that shall be your name!" Nudge pipes up, excitedly.
"What?" The girl looks disoriented.
"Rogue! Your name will be Rogue." Nudge smiles widely.
"Rogue..." The girl mauls it over, "Yes, it will do quite nicely."
I smile slightly, uneasy. I take a deep breath and let it out. Better now than never, I decide.
"Well then, Rogue. Welcome to the flock."
