Marinette's heart began to race as she took her hand back and turned towards where the voice came from, her eyes wide trying to find whoever called her out. Adrien quickly made his way over to her without falling off of the platform. Once he was by her side, he held his arm in front of her as a means of protection.

"Who's there?!" Adrien shouted back into room. He spotted some movement from one of the higher platforms and looked up. Marinette saw his head suddenly look and followed his gaze as well.

There stood a cloaked figure, a girl that looked to be just a few years older than Adrien and Marinette. They could tell it was a girl because only half of her body was cloaked and you could see her curvy figure in the white sweater and ripped jeans that she wore, but it was also her face. Even though half of her face was covered with bandages, she had dark tanned skin dappled with darker freckles and golden hazel eyes. Her hair was half shaved on the side that was covered in bandages, but the other half was long and dark with different colors of ribbons braided into it.

"You heard what I said! Do not touch Marie!" she shouted back, her accent seemed a bit odd to Adrien and Marinette. The two of them looked at each other, the worry slowly easing out of their heads. Marinette slowly took a few steps away from Adrien's side and towards the mysterious woman who towered over them.

"I'm sorry, we mean you no harm! We just wanted to see the bells! I'm Marinette, what's your name?" She called up to the woman. Adrien looked at Marinette with puzzled eyes, but then smiled softly. Marinette was always so friendly to people, even total strangers. The woman looked down at them, her face softened a little, but she remained cautious. She leapt down from the upper platform and landed on her feet with a thud. She straightened up her back and dipped her head with respect.

"Welcome, Marinette. I am called Wren; I am the bell ringer. Boy, do you have a name?" she said suddenly turning attention to Adrien. Adrien stammered a bit, he was surprised at how upfront she was to total strangers.

"M-my name is Adrien. Marinette and I are classmates here on a trip today." He said slowly finding his calm demeanor. Wren nodded her head and dug into a pocket inside of her cloak. She pulled out two small wooden flowers and handed them to Adrien and Marinette.

"I welcome you, Marinette and Adrien. I apologize for my approach, but please accept these tokens. I made them myself out of some of the old beams that needed replacing."

Marinette smiled at Wren and held the small wooden flower close to her heart, "Thank you, Wren! I'll treasure this forever!". She carefully put the small flower in her side purse, letting Tikki happily take it inside and snuggle it. Adrien knew that if he left it near Plagg, he would confuse it for cheese and try to eat. So just to be safe, he placed it in his pocket. Wren smiled a little at the fact that they accepted her tokens. Maybe they weren't a threat to her.

A loud noise came from just behind where the trio was standing. Wren ducked down a little and raised her arm to cover Marinette and Adrien. "You have to hide…My master is coming!" she whispered to them. Adrien looked around and found a small crawl space under the platform where they could hide. He quickly grabbed Marinette's hand again and ran to the space, sliding underneath the wooden platform. They both watched as Wren stood up and began to polish one of the bells.

"Wren, my little bird! I'm surprised to see you up so early!" an older gentleman's voice called. Wren turned around, smiling contently at the stranger.

"Master Darcel, Wren always rises with the morning sun." She said turning around and kneeling before the gentleman. Master Darcel was probably a little taller than Wren, he was an elderly man and a little bit on the heavy side. He was dressed in a very elegant suit and carried a small brief case in his hand.

"Well, today is a big day, my little bird. You see, there is a field trip here today. I just came to make sure that none of them have found you or anything." He spoke calmly, a small smile casted on his face. Wren's heart began to pound of her chest, if he had seen Adrien and Marinette, who knows what he would do. Nervousness began to creep up on her, but Wren did not let it show.

"Ah, Wren understands, Master. But…" Wren said, looking down and clasping her hands together. "Maybe…the children are not bad…maybe I could…talk with them? I only speak with you and the archdeacon…"

In the blink of an eye, Master Darcel grabbed her cheeks out of anger and Wren let out a small cry. Marinette and Adrien almost leapt out of their hiding spot to slap the guy, but they stayed put.

"Wren…I do NOT want you to even THINK about leaving this room. Do you really want to throw away EVERYTHING I've done to protect you? What if they saw your face?! Do you HONESTLY think they will treat you like a human like I do? Or like the monster that you really are?!" Master Darcel shouted, his voice echoing in the large room. Anger fired up in Marinette like a bomb had exploded in her chest. This guy was in no place to speak to Wren the way he was and just as she went to leave the crawl space, Adrien grabbed her hand and pulled her back.

"Don't…it'll make things worse…Let's just wait for him to leave." He spoke softly to her. She could hear it in his voice that he was pissed too. Marinette hesitated to listen to him for a second, but crawled back towards him. At least she was with Adrien, if she was with Chat, he would have let her run out like a bat out of hell.

Master Darcel removed his hand from Wren's face and walked her over to a piece of shattered glass near where Adrien and Marinette were hiding. He held Wren by her shoulders and made her look at her reflection. "Wren…Right now, you are human. A strong human that I am proud to have raised and cared for."

Hearing him say that made Wren smile a little bit, she did look very beautiful right now despite the bandages on her face. But what Master Darcel did next would shatter those thoughts. He ripped the bandages off to reveal a very unusual deformity. Marinette and Adrien just looked at the incident in complete shock, not expecting it to take a turn the way it did.

The left side of Wren's face was covered in a scale like skin around her eye and grew into beautiful bright red and orange feathers along the side of her head. Master Darcel took a step away from Wren and threw the bandages on the ground, his face in a deep scowl.

"But like this…you are a MONSTER. If anyone else saw you like this, they'd have you taken away and perform experiments on you! If I hadn't rescued you when I did, you'd be dead. If I hadn't protected you for over 21 years, you'd be dead." Master Darcel said very sternly. Now both Adrien and Marinette were furious, but their attention shifted when they heard sniffles coming from Wren. Her face was scrunched up as tears streamed down her face and her hand trailed along her feathers. Adrien felt like transforming and clawing Master Darcel's face off, but then Marinette would know he was Chat Noir and there was no time for that. He looked over at Marinette and saw small pearls of tears rolling down her face; feeling just as upset, he put his hand on her back and pulled her a little closer.

Master Darcel began to leave the room, but he stopped and looked back at Wren again. She was on the floor crying and holding her face in her hands. "You are safe up here. I've made sure of that for the past 21 years. You are a monster, Wren. I apologize, but nothing will ever change that." And with that, he left the room. After about 10 seconds, Marinette and Adrien finally came out of their hiding spot and went over to Wren, who had stopped sobbing a little and looked at the glass. Her hand gently glided over the feathers and scaly part of her face, her heart breaking every second.

"I'm…a monster…"