"Little more real," Anemone corrected. "I'm not exactly human; the hair color is natural."

"I'm a hybrid-Coralian. I can hear all of the others; like a whispering in the back of my brain that builds to a scream the closer they get. It's quieter, being here, but sometimes they leak through," she said simply. "When you add to that the fact I'm, well, 'fragmented' to start with, I can sometimes be a bit of a handful."

"Or as the doctors say when they don't think I'm listening, I'm a 'scary little psychopathic experiment gone wrong.'" Really, she not be as proud of that as she is.