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The sound of metal giving way and bending into shapes no one could think of, the car smashed into a brick wall, full force.
But that
But that
He was still alive, twitching, and then the gurgling noise started again, this time it was met with coughing and choking. Blood poured out of his mouth like a waterfall, and the impact with the ground forced something up his throat. The wayward organ made its escape, but it ripped his esophagus to pieces on its exit. The organ, which was presumed to be is heart, kept beating. The little girl Ella could hear the sound of the
Another time, her mother had insisted to do shopping outside of town, to avoid stares, toward the little girl that should have been dead. At this department store, a sign with a thin, steel frame hung above the entrance, it was tilted, like a guillotine blade waiting to fall.
Then she saw it, a little white rabbit at the corner of the entrance of the store. No little angel would be able to resist something so precious, she ran to it.
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As she did, she heard a snapping sound, like a chain being pulled apart.
And
The sign fell fast, closer and closer to little Ella.
She
Neither did the man in the signs path, talking on his cellphone, staring down at a cup of coffee in his hands. The sign hit the man in the face, shattering his glasses, which exploded into shards that impaled his eyes, throat, and lungs. He
Blood flowed like a fountain from his dead body, dripping on Ella, and releasing a stream onto the rabbit, which became frightened and ran off, as any intelligent creature would do.
She stared at the rabbit as it ran, disappointed that she
Ella just stared at the
That was 2 months ago.
Her usually level-headed mother, had hired a range of bodyguards for her daughter, to keep an eye out for any potential threats. They stayed far away, hiding on roofs, in trees and bushes, with high caliber rifles. At the price her mother was willing to pay them, they were going to give it their all.
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Then, at midnight, the day before her 10th birthday, it spoke.
Ella shrieked, dropped the puppet, and scrambled under her bed, shaking, covering her head with her hands.
Ella said nothing, she simply nodded, silently prodding the thing to keep talking.
Ella sat there still, listening intently, she
The conversation continued, the sock puppet quoted every single incident that had ever harmed another instead of her.
She listened.
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She heard someone coming up the stairs.
The light was on in the hallway.
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