Freak

It wasn't something Ava would have ever thought to become.

But as she grew and changed with her new powers, that once belonged to her dear mentor Maya, she found herself becoming different.

Even for such a young girl, sometimes dark thoughts snuck into her mind, with the nagging feeling that she had become something more than what she thought she would be. There was something distinctly different from being a human and being a Siren.

If she could describe it, she would say it's an ever constant pressure, like a weight placed on her shoulder, with it, the knowledge that she was now part of the most wanted race of the entire universe.

Wanted for all the wrong reasons, because normal people feared them, and would rather want them dead than try to understand them. And she thought she would be the same, hadn't she been rescued, raised and saved literally by one of them.

And then later got her curse bestowed on her.

"Being a Siren is not as easy as it looks." Maya had told her, when Ava still believed that belonging to their race, had been nothing else but bright tattoos and amazing powers.

She understood now, or at least tried to do so.

The knowledge of not being able to be seen or considered a normal person again, was annoying to think about, almost scary. The future didn't look so bright as it did when she had been told she would become one of them.

And she wondered, if perhaps, Maya had felt the same all along, if she ever had those thoughts like her. Ava supposed she did, the woman had held the powers and also lived far longer than her.

Still, she would have liked to ask these questions to her herself, had she still been by her side. She would dearly miss her and her guidance.

And for her, she would accept whatever the universe had to offer to her, whether it was love or hate it didn't matter, Maya had trusted her powers onto her, and she didn't want to disappoint her.

Maya had chosen her to bear this weight out of all people, because she believed that she was the right person to do so.

Even if it meant feeling and being a freak, then, so be it.