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- Author: Natalie J. Case
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OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN
My earliest memories are of blood, the hot, sticky taste of it on my tongue,
the strange, copper scent of it suffocating me. I had no context for these
things. I knew that I was small, and I knew that the stain of it was on my
soul, but like so much of my life before I was ten, I could only guess.
That was where my life began, on my tenth birthday.
It began on a bench outside a police station one early Saturday morning. I
was found in a semi-catatonic state, sitting with an old beat-up suitcase
containing a few changes of clothing, and a backpack with a note inside
giving my name, Thána Augusta Celene Alizon Archer, and age, along with
a few books and a stuffed dog named Rusty.
I was found during shift change, and my next hours and days were filled
with fear and disorientation as I was taken from the police station to the
hospital, and from there to a group home. I spent the better part of a year
there before they found me a place in foster care. All searches for my
parents came up empty. All attempts to figure out where I’d come from
came to nothing.
At times, nightmares would soak my dreams with terror, taking me back to
that memory. I would wake gasping and rubbing at my skin, trying to clean
the blood from it. I was always off-kilter for days when it happened, and it
took me until I was nearly seventeen to realize that it always happened on
the same night every year. I guessed it was some kind of anniversary.
I was luckier than some, my tour through foster care only saw three homes,
and I only left the first one when my foster mother got a job transfer to
Texas and the second one because the couple was divorcing. I arrived at my
final foster home one week before the start of school my junior year of high
school. I graduated near the top of my class, which wasn’t hard considering
the number of stoners in the class, and I managed to scrape up a few
scholarships and grants to apply toward my state college degree. I worked
at a bookstore just off campus to supplement my education and allow me to
eat. It also served to keep me in books, and even allowed me to indulge my
passion for “ye Old English” and the study of the surviving literature from
the time. I was wise enough to know that the job prospects were small in
such a rarified field, so I graduated with a business degree just generic
enough to afford me a chance at almost any kind of job in the corporate
world I decided to chase, though I continued to take elective classes to feed
my love.
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