Heroes weren't real. Marie had realized as much very early on, even before her baby teeth fell out. Heroes didn't show when her mother hit her. Heroes didn't show up when her father sold her. They didn't show up when those terrible men broke little girls like her, and they wouldn't show up once it came her turn to go through the same thing.
She had given up all hope when she was made to wait in that cold room, wearing nothing but that thin piece of fabric. When the large man pushed her down, she thought about all the chances she had to end her life. To escape this nightmare.
No heroes came to save her. No heroes will come.
"GAHH!!!"
Neither the pained cry nor the powerful gust registered in her mind at first. Only once she noticed that the monster towering over her was gone did she realize something was off. That was when she saw him.
