The Fallen
“He was only about five foot tall, slightly hunched. Jackson tried not to show in her face what she was feeling. The boy looked awful, as if he’d once been much bigger and had suddenly shrunk leaving his stretched skin hanging in loose sheets. There were great folds and ridges of it around his eyes and mouth and it was rucked up around his neck, and piled on his shoulders. More folds hung out of the bottom of his sleeves, half covering his hands. He was walking with some difficulty, and his eyes..., where she could see them, looked sad and ashamed.‘That is so cool!’ said Achilleus. ‘Let me look at you, Skinboy. How the hell did you end up looking like that?’‘I didn’t end up like this,’ said the boy, ‘I started out like this.’‘You were born that way?’‘Yeah.’‘Does it hurt?’‘No.’‘So is there, like, a proper medical term for it?’‘Nope. Nobody else has ever been like this. All of us, we’re all different.’‘Are you, like, experiments, or something?’‘In a way, but not the way you mean.MoreLess
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