Silence fell through the camp and Akello cleared her throat, tears burning in her eyes.<br/>"I suppose you all want to know where I'm from, yes?" Everyones eyes were on her and she sighed, continuing.<br/>"I was born in Germany. A small town outside Saarland to be exact...  My parents were shot so I lived with my cousins for a few years." I swallowed deeply for the next part. "He was a bit of a drinker and abuse was normal... I-I-I ended up getting taken away by people who found out. I lived in an orphanage till I was nine or ten. We had a free day out and I heard about the circus." Her finger nails drove straight into her pals, blood trickling down her wrists. "I peeked through the trees and they saw me spying. And look at me now..." I choked. "All I remember was a white room. They didnt put me to sleep or anything when they implanted the wings. I almost died of pain but they kept me alive by injecting... Something into me. The scars on my arms were me trying to kill myself when this happened." She swallowed deeply and kept her eyes down, eyes squeezed shut.