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Aklan

The first time my powers developed, I was 3 years old and the first person’s future I saw was Mother’s. I still remember it as clear as day. Mother was lying breathless on the ground in a pool of blood. Her blood.

As a child, I wailed thinking it was a bad dream but when I was 6 and got to understand my powers, I lived in anxiety everyday that one day Mother was going to die. The fact that I didn’t know when it would happen was enough to drive me crazy.

A year later, when I was 7, Mother and I went on a trip together. It was supposed to be the happiest day of my life but then we got attacked. Scared that my nightmare about Mother’s death would come to pass that day, I had my first kill.

I didn’t feel bad about it. All that ran through my mind was that I protected Mother. I thought those nightmares would stop but they never did. I kept on seeing Mother’s death every time I looked at her. That was the first time I wished I didn’t have my power. I hated it and made a pact with Ca