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The Wild Child fled the scene of the crime to the English pastures. He ran the whole length of a bitter hot night, not once stopping, as if to trying to escape a nightmare. By the time the neighbors discovered the nauseating carcasses of Aure and Jonathan, the transformed Draw already covered a huge amount of ground. He wandered through acres of farmland like a ghost - no longer wanting to live, but unable to die - and waited for starvation to settle in. He traveled for no reason, subject to nightmares by both day and night, and wandered into a small town in south England. He witnessed the flat, wooden roofs of slanted houses about to break at the seams; the dirty, neglected environment left behind after international society's moralistic plunge. Delirious with hunger, Draw approached at a snail’s pace and fought not to black-out. Late afternoon, he trudged through the open doorway of a house and collapsed unconscious onto the floor before the woman and girl living inside could so much as say a word.

The woman, Lillian Stein, took Draw in and patched him up with the help of her daughter, Richie, and her outdated android, Curv. Draw took several days to recover, and once he was nourished back to passable health, he took even longer to acknowledge anything around him. Draw does not remember the specifics of this time well, as for close to two weeks he fought off delirium, physical sickness brought on by trauma, and frequently occurring nightmares. He was once told that Lillian had to help him through two different seizures during this time brought on by nightmares, and that he would often partially transform during such episodes.

Lillian thought she knew what Draw's transformations stemmed from. Despite the fact that where she lived was a poor, run-down place, the world over had enormous access to media and the press. A little over two years ago, the press reported several attacks on Calvary bureaus by 'super-humans.' Small groups of human-animal monstrosities stormed these bureaus and killed human and android alike without batting an eyelash. The security, unequipped to deal with the kind of power these Wild Children wielded, fell easily. After three successive waves of attack, the Calvary was forced to withdraw their bureaus to their headquarters in Iceland. During the next year, the Calvary gathered any and all intelligence they could find on these Wild Children. They discovered that these attacking groups of subjects were controlled by a rebel faction, and the Calvary systemically began to wipe them out. Over a six-month period, they killed over five-hundred Wild Children and every single member of the rebel faction. Since then, the Calvary claimed that they ended the last reign of terror from the Revolutionaries and had now brought back peace, but rumors circulated the internet that Wild Children still lived. Lillian knew she could not take Draw into a hospital, as they would soon discover Draw's identity and have him murdered, like the five-hundred other children the Calvary dealt with. She cared for him as best as she could and started to think of adopting him into her family.