[She looks back down at the dead body, fiddling with her mother's hair between her fingers.

"Mother, I think I want to try to find happiness. I do not know if someone like me can find it, but if my kindest brother, Dawn, is with me and if my wonderful friend, Walnut, is with me, I do not think it is impossible. I think I will be able to find it so I want to try. We can stop father, we can stop the killing, and then we can finally be free.

But mother . . .

I am afraid. I try, but I cannot forget it, that time you were kind to me. I try to forget it everyday, I try and I try and I try to forget because it hurts to remember it. But I wake up and remember every morning, the sensation of the hairbrush. Do you remember? That is why I am here. It is not too late for you, is it? You are still human, aren't you?

Will you come with us?

She had practiced this speech in her head over and over

and over and over

and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over .]