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[ ... hrrr it's a picture of Michi with her older brother.
They're on the porch of the family house - Michi is twelve, and her brother is sixteen.
They're having fun; Michi is having a piggyback ride, and grinning broadly, just like she does nowadays, with real warmth and heart.

She feels a little bubble of emotion well up in her throat, and her eyes go a little glassy. ]

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[Hope practically crashes into Michi's room, obviously running away from something -- someone. She's wheezing, hair and bruises and blood everywhere, and finally collapses on the ground.]

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[ Michi utters a little, choked scream as Hope crashes in - she backs up sharply against a wall until she realises who it is, eyes widening somewhat fearfully.

A- Anna! What happened?! [ She dashes forward, pretty much falling to her knees beside her, hands hovering uselessly as she tries to assess whether touching Hope would be wise or not. ] W- what - or who - did this to ya? Are ya okay? Ya breathin' sounds real funny- [ dafhjkldgff PANIC ]

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[Hope snaps her head up, but her expression breaks immediately into an utterly crushed grimace. The girl who was never seen crying in her entire life doesn't even try to hold back her tears at that moment, hands hiding her face.]

He's--[She chokes and gasps for air, sobbing miserably.] Don't let him find me, please.

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W-who? [ Michi glances up with some alarm at the door, quickly scrabbling to her feet to shut it, lamely pulling up a nearby chair and lodging it under the handle. She doesn't know how much good it'd do against someone who had done this ... it seemed monstrous to Michi. ] I swear to ya, I won't let anyone find ya here, 'kay? [ Even if that means trying some short range teleportation around the place. ]

He- hey, is anythin' broke? Like, bones an' stuff... I ain't too good with this who medical stuff, y'know. [ Michi drops down next to her again, on her knees, looking a little helpless. ] There anythin' I can do to help ya? Anythin' at all?

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[Her fingers were snapped (and put back in place), her face was slammed against the wall repeatedly, she was kicked and punched around by a monster about fifty times stronger than she is while he told her how he'd raped her mother. Hope only sobs between words, shaking her head quickly.] No, just--just let me stay here, please. [One of her hands reaches to touch Michi's arm with pleading eyes.] Don't let him find me.