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Weekly Contest #358
It was easy to discourage her in the beginning. She was the youngest, the only girl. She was a cute little thing that people doted on. It sickened me. Of course, she wasn’t perfect. She carried the stain that marred all the descendants of the original protagonist. She could be selfish and prone to anger. These things I could work with; these were things I could feed. I resolved to taint her, turn her stain into a blackness that seeped into her very soul. And so, my work began. She was isolated, with no one her age around. I took advantage of...
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