Chapter 11
The end?
Else knowing fully well her mothers only wish is not to protect her but to break the hurros clan for not helping her build her own clan decides to take her "own" life but is it really hers when she is just a weapon built for horror clans success well,that doesn't matter at all since she has decided After all even machines have a mind of their own but......wait is this really the end?
The cold steel of the butterfly blade the own given to her by verdigard pressed against her throat, a familiar weight. Elise’s fingers trembled, not from fear, but from the hollow echo of a life that had never truly been hers. She stood alone in the abandoned warehouse, the scent of rust and damp concrete filling her lungs. Outside, the city hummed with oblivious life. Inside, she was a ghost of her own making.
Her mother’s words still coiled in her mind, sharp and venomous: I never wanted to protect you, Elise. I wanted to break them. And you were the perfect hammer. The truth had cracked something inside her, not a revelation but a confirmation. She had been forged—flesh and steel and programming—for the Horrors’ rise. Verdigard had shaped her as a weapon. Her mother had tried to wield her as a key. Both had seen only the machine.
But machines, even the most obedient, learn to feel the friction of their gears.
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