and at the start it was just the sound of a child crying, a child crying with no one to soothe her. at the start
there was nothing but tears. tears, screams, the sounds of flesh against flesh, of hard blows, of harsh words,
words saying that there was no worth in the flesh or the soul, degrading and hurtful, bleeding down into the
core of existence, hurting dreadfully, tainting the very conception of self and others. and the tears kept
going and going until the whole person shattered into bits and pieces.