Lost and Broken Toy
Days in solitary felt like weeks. Sweet Sister Sophie would sometimes sneak in and tell her how long it had been, bring her the food she had been disallowed along with water. Would clean and patch up the wounds that the other Sisters gave her. She would sometimes even bring a blanket for Calliope in the cold months so she didn't freeze. In return Calliope would sing to Sophie, she was the only one who didn’t call her a demon, who didn’t beat her. One day Sister Sophie disappeared, everyone blamed Calliope, saying that the 'demon' took Poor Sweet Sister Sophie away. The Sisters weren't the only ones beating her after that. Eventually, she was done, they had her on the floor, stripped down to her undergarments covered in bruises, burns, and blood from the whip marks. She could barely cry anymore, so she kicked and hit. Once she was facing them and they weren’t able to touch her yet, she closed her eyes and she screamed, a loud ear bursting scream. Then they screamed. But she ignored them and just kept screaming until the only sound was her screams. She stopped and tried to catch her breath, she stopped breathing when she opened her eyes. The sister and other girls were on the floor, bleeding through their eyes, their ears, their noses. Most of them were holding their ears when they died, blood seeping through their fingers. She doesn't know how long she just sat there staring at them. Once she could feel her legs again she got up and ran out of the room, bodies were scattered around the convent, everywhere. How could she do this, what is she? She shook her head, it can’t have been her, it had to have been someone else...it had to be. She packed her stuff in a bag and ran out, not realizing and she ran out that she knocked over a lit candle holder on a curtain, she just ran, taking what little she had, along with some money that she found in the Mother Superior’s room. Even if it wasn’t her, everyone would think it was so she had to leave. Maybe she could call Uncle no, no one can know, she would contact her Uncle when she was safe from whoever did that and anyone that would come after her.