Chapter Fourteen

“You know I’ve heard that before… More than once.” Elizabeth interrupted entering the room, Nora opened her mouth to speak, but Elizabeth held up her hand. “Don’t. I know you’re going to say you’re sorry because you said what you felt, not realizing I could hear you. You have a right to your opinion and to your feelings, so it’s fine. You need to understand how I was created, and maybe you will understand my issue with myself. I was born in 1971 B.C. I was constantly a sick child. For some reason, I never died though with how sick I was all the time I should’ve been. My father was finally sick of me. I was too weak. I was a danger to the village. My father, when I was young, picked me and took me into the woods and left me there to die alone in the dark surrounded by wild animals. I could hear them approaching, stalking me. At any moment, I would be torn apart by wolves, and there was nothing I could do. As I sat there against a tree just waiting for my death, a bright light flashed, b