The next morning the orphans ran down into the dinning hall to wait for their breakfast. As was tradition in the orphanage, everytime a new child was brought in it was introduced to the other children. While Elizabeth was unsure if this was wise to do with Sara but Mother Superior had insisted on it.
"Children! Children!" Elizabeth shouted banging a metal lid with a spoon to quiet them and get their attention, "Last night a new orphan was delivered to us."
This announcement was met by hundreds of diffrent reactions by the people in the room. The older kids groaned knowing that meant less for them. The youngest kids squealed excitedly expecting another playmate. The atendents said a silent prayer knowing they had yet another child to chase around the house and try to force to take orders. One little child, half hidden behind a black vale and clothing sat silently and watched the bundle with a hardened look.
"So now I would like to introduce you all to Sarah!" Elizabeth said pulling back the blanket revealing the little harpie in the blankets.
The reaction was almost instantanious, the older kids swore, the younger kids cried, most just screamed, and the attendents demanded to know what was wrong with Elizabeth for bringing the monster here. The half-hidden child straightened in his chair and his face softened as he looked down on the little harpie. However several of the older kids and attendents had gathered into a group of hostiles moving through the children towards Elizabeth with hatred in their eyes.
"Elizabeth," one of the attendents in the group said heatedly, "Give us the harpie."
"Why?" Elizabeth asked pulling Sarah closer to her.
"So we can kill it before it does any harm!" One of the older boys shouted.
A wooden cup flew across the room and hit the boy in the face hard enough to make his face bleed. Looking to the source of the thrown cup the group of hostiles saw the half-hidden boy glaring at them with his one visable eye. The group shrunk away as the boy hopped from his seat and walked over to stand in front of Elizabeth and Sarah.
"Drachzack, get away from that harpe before it hurts you!" one of the attendents shouted to the half veiled boy.
"You get away from it before I hurt you!" Drachzack said with the hidden half of his mouth.
Now the group was uneasy, Drachzack suffered from multiple personalities and the side of his body that spoke tended to show which personallity was in control. The personality that spoke with the hidden half of his mouth was a nortoriously dangerous one. Almost everyone in the orphanage avoided making Drachzack mad when this personallity was in control.
"Then I'll just bowl you over kid!" one of the newer male attendents said charging the eight year old.
Drachzack calmly grabbed a chair and smashed it over the man's head hard enough to shatter the chair and knock the man out. Drachzack kicked the man in the side a couple of times before turning to glare at the rest of the group.
"If any of you try to harm the harpie again, I WILL SHOW NO MERCY!!!" Drachzack shouted the last five words with both sides of his mouth, something unheard of at the orphanage.
Drachzack walked out of the room steaming and the orphans and attendents reluctently backed away from Elizabeth and Sarah. They all knew all to well that Drachzack was all to likely to keep his threat. So whether they liked it or not, Sarah was staying.
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