Scarred (warning: a bit dark)

A small, dark room. From behind, we see a deathly pale young girl hunched over inside a human cage, in the very center of the room. No lights fight back the gloom; the environment is pervasively dead. The young girl’s posture is that of a zombie; her body is lifeless, and her head is held up in only the most drooping position. The stench of urine drenches the musty air. As we move around the cage to get a closer look, we see that deep, dark circles ring around her eyes. Her hair is a mess, probably unwashed for months, not that we can tell from this dark shadow. Suddenly the door slams open. Blinding light flashes across the room and in steps an old crone. She holds out a key and unlocks the girl’s cage. Click!

“Wake up. You be a good girl and eat.”

We see the girl in the cage open her eyes as the old lady throws bread crumbs at her naked body.

“You will rot in here forever for your sin. Do you understand me? Repeat what I just said.”

Slap! The hag lands a blow across her face from the right. Slap! From the left.

“Repeat.”

“I will rot in here forever for my sin.”

“You are worthless.”

“I am worthless. I am worthless. I am worthless...”

The old crone locks the cage door, and leaves the room with the young girl sobbing in a corner of her cage. This happens every night for as long as the girl can remember. She felt pity for herself. The tears rolls down her face as she reflects upon her empty existance. She longs to see the world that was outside her cell.



The next night, she was awoken by the entrance of the old hag. She heard the lock open. Click!

“Wake up. You will be good.”

The girl started to sob when she saw the big spoon the crone was holding. She knew intimately what that meant.

“You are a nobody.”

“I am a nobody.”

“You are product of incest. You will be raped just as I was raped. That was how you were created.”

With that, the crone stabs the spoon into the girl’s private until it reached into her uterus. The girl cries and screams, cries and screams, but to no avail. Violently the mother scraps around the girl’s uterus until her face turns pale and she was in too much pain to scream any more. The old hag’s face revealed a look of determination under the dim light, as she began to beat her daughter’s face. Gradually the young girl’s pale face become blood red, and the crone liked this, because it made her look pretty. It reminds the crone of her lost youth. Now her only task was to make her daughter a good girl.

“Only after you accept that you will be stuck in here forever, will you finally be free. Only after you accept that your life is meaningless, will you finally see freedom.”

With that, the girl hears the click signaling her mother leave. She longs to see the world outside her cell, but a brilliant idea then forms at the back of her mind. Indeed that was what it seems like to us, because we see a smile flash across her face. It revealed a sharp row of yellow teeth that she suddenly uses to bite down upon her own pinky finger. At first there was only blood, but the bleeding stops after she tears away the flesh, rendering bones where her pinky used to be. She inserts her bone finger into the lock and click! the lock pops open. Quickly the girl scrambles out of her cage for what must seem like the first time in her life, because as she tries to stand up, back down she falls. She had never learned to walk, and could not escape her cell. The door opens. We see the figure of the old crone again, and we see a surprised look on her face.

“You have been a bad girl, but now you are ready to join my army of demon daughters.”

The video stops there. We have raided the house of this old hag and found much evidence of abuse, including the apparatuses that were used for torcher. The police were not able to catch or identify her, but found that she had been recording her victims on tape. There were dozens of cells. However, based on DNA evidence of the splattered blood of her victims and the old hag’s hair, there is no relation found between any of them. We speculate that the girls are the missing babies kidnapped from St. Ansel’s hospital over a decade ago. The police search for the old hag will continue.