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</div><br/><div align="justify"><i>The men had swept over the land like a tidal wave, leaving rivers and lakes of blood to soak into the dust and ash left in their wake. <br/>
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Tinkerbell had been young, nearly too young to remember, but violence like that leaves an impression on a soul no matter how innocent. A stain that worsens over time or hardens into armor, but corruption is corruption no matter how you paint it. It was something Hook had recognized in her, and he breathed <span style="font-family: 'courier new'">life</span> into it. <br/>
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With every passing day under Hook's guidance, the brambles coiled tighter around Tinker's insides until every shred of softness was suffocated, until tenderness was a stranger. <br/>
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He taught her how to inflict pain, most often by example, until she also knew how to withstand it. His favor earned her status, privilege among the Lost Boys of Neverland, but he made sure to keep her humble. <br/>
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</div>Green. She did like green, but it was difficult to imagine her surroundings as anything other than the monochrome world she had known all her life. Occasionally she'd find something beautiful, like her dress, but those moments were so few and far between they hardly existed as more than dreams in her mind. At the mere mention of the color the peripheral of her mind tried to conjure memories of that night, the silver lining of a pretty thing she was able to wear, the feel of soft fabric against her skin, the contrast of the vibrant emerald to the dirty scrapes on her knees…<br/><br/>Now was not the time for reminiscing. She had to remain diligent, monitoring their surroundings as they hiked toward the isolated cabin.<br/><br/><div class="floatright" style="padding: 0 0 px px">
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</div>Up ahead, between the skeletal remains of the trees the cabin started to appear, and Tinker automatically slowed her pace and kept her eyes on their surroundings as Hook took measure of the cabin itself. Was it how he had left it? Was there evidence of any one besides them nearby? Her fingers traced the leather hilt of her knife, itching to use it. To have an excuse to feel the softness of flesh give way beneath the hardened steel. She had always preferred knives to guns. Knives didn't jam on you, didn't require ammunition in a world where resources were limited. If she was hunting or defending her home against<i>others</i>she often chose a bow, but in this element, among the trees and with both Hook and Peter in her company, she carried her knives.<br/><br/>Tinkerbell could be as silent as the fog when she wanted to be, moving over terrain without so much as a whisper, her presence could easily be forgotten bringing up the tail end of their procession if not for the prickle of being followed by a predator that continued to itch at the back of Peter's neck. Hook, of course, felt no such scratch. He didn't need to, so tightly twisted around his little finger as she was, she would stop breathing if he told her to.<br/><br/>Through the cabin they moved, Hook and Tinker herding Peter toward the back room. Inside she knew the prize the boy had waiting for him, and in another world perhaps Tinker would have felt some illness, some trepidation, about what Hook wanted them to do, but whatever empathy and sympathy remained in Tinker was buried under a lifetime of brutality.<br/><br/>Green eyes met blue over the shoulder of Peter, stepping further inside as he moved toward the bed, leaving her to stand in the threshold with Hook at her side. Her chin turned, eyes lifting to meet his, and in a moment they communicated all they would need to. She nodded once, an acknowledgement and agreement, before she shifted her own position to in front of the old dresser leaning against the far wall, her gaze drifting out the dirty glass of the window before returning her eyes to look at the other girl.<br/><br/><i>The other girl.</i><br/><br/>There had only been one other in Neverland that Tinker knew of. One that hadn't killed themselves or died from the elements, anyway. She had been gone for years, her predecessor. She was Hook's now. And this girl… she would be Peter's. A sister, in a way, Hook had told her. If they could train her as Tinker had been trained.<br/><br/>But that would be up to Peter, so for now Tinker just observed, preparing to step in when she was needed.<br/><br/><div style="text-align: center"><div class="bbImageWrapper lazyload js-lbImage" data-lb-caption-extra-html="" data-lb-sidebar-href="" data-single-image="1" data-src="https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/937433047345795162/937442756266184834/6b976de5781a22a27182f2a1932fb35f.png" title="6b976de5781a22a27182f2a1932fb35f.png">
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