I don't know what to say....

[x_rahne]

I was crying today, but 'tisn't anything to do with being a mutant or remembering how I manifested. That wasn't really so bad. Not after some of the stories... I thought it was awful then, but I didn't know any better, I'm sorry.

Nobody where I grew up had really paid so much attention -- we didn't know what mutants were, at least not like this. I think some who were far enough along in school had seen it in biology books, but not about... anything like this.

We'd heard about werewolves. It didn't quite fit; it was only near the full moon when the headaches came, but almost at the end I turned to a wolf because it hurt -- I didn't know how -- and then Reverend Craig fell down, and he'd thought I had a demon, and when he came toward me once he got up I was afraid and ran away.

I shouldn't have run; they didn't hurt me much, not after they caught me and saw I wasn't fighting. They only put me in an old zoo cage for a while so I couldn't hurt anyone if I went mad. And they let me out, even if they were still nervous, once I found out how to change back.... Reverend Craig had even brought a silver cross, because if I'd been a werewolf like the stories, well.... But I wasn't, see, because the silver and moon and things didn't work the same, and being a wolf didn't make me want to kill anyone.

I oughtn't to have been so upset. I'm sorry.

I'm very grateful I didn't hurt anybody.