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that’s been my experience. Although a lot of lonely people also just stay sad. But you’re not one to get sad, are you? You don’t like the sadness, so you use the anger to keep it at bay.”
Angry-Never-Smiles sat. How could this girl, this human girl, know what he was feeling deep inside? How could she know what he had been hiding from ev- eryone in the tribe all these years?
“I don’t understand,” he said.
“Can I tell you a story,” asked the girl.
“What?”
“A story? Can I tell you a story?”
Angry-Never-Smiles’ confusion got the better of him, and he simply nodded.
The girl started to speak.
“Once upon a time, a very long time ago, there was a father who loved his
daughter very, very much. The father had special powers and could do amazing things with his mind and his will. He would often do special tricks for his daughter, but these weren’t enough to hide the sadness that was deep within him. This sadness was there because he was lonely, because his wife had died, and as much as he tried to cope with her passing, he couldn’t. He spent many years searching for knowledge to try to bring his wife back to life, but couldn’t find it, and soon his sadness turned to despair.
“He fell in with some others with the same kind of special powers as him, and they promised to help him bring his wife back as long as he helped them. But while he was helping them, something bad happened and his daughter died. This broke the father, who had now lost not only his wife, but his beloved only child. He went mad. His powers increased and he soon developed the ability to bring people back from the dead, but they didn’t come back quite right. They came back as unthink- ing, undead creatures. And so, the father turned to new experiments.
“The father started to cross this creature with that creature and create strange hybrids of different animals. He was trying to find ways to create new life so that he would be able to bring back both his wife and child, trying to understand the secrets of life and death and the universe.
“Eventually the father became so insane that there was little of the good man that he once left. His quest to bring back his family changed to a quest to create monsters, and many men and women of power came to him for this to supply their armies. He ended up creating many monsters. Many of them were terrible. But some of the monsters were only monsters because they didn’t know they could be anything else.
“One group of monsters started to question why they had been made and decided that they didn’t want to fight for humans who used them only for war. They didn’t know how to escape until a young girl came to them and told them of a way
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