Part 4

Sirene knew in her heart what she was about to do was for the best, but it didn't make her feel any better about it. To kill nearly sixty people, people she had known for her entire life, just to spare them the agonizing death of this disease. People who had already suspected her for causing this, and had just burned down her home with the bodies of her parents still inside.

The first person she saw was someone she had long considered a friend, the next door neighbour who always shared his extra crops with them. The rage in his eyes when he saw her walking out of the woods gave her the resolve to go through with this.

"Die!" Sirene shouted, and he simply ceased to live. He fell over, the light gone from his eyes forever.

Sirene stopped in her tracks. It really was that easy. She really could kill with a word if there was killing intent behind it. She decided to look for the young boys who had been bullying her.

Sirene moved from house to house in the village, extinguishing the flame of life household by household, and even taking some sadistic joy in those who had bullied her or otherwise wronged her, torturing them by killing their family one person at a time while they were forced to watch.

It took hours, but finally, she was done. She was the last person left alive in this village. She walked to what was once the town square, and looked around. She did feel sad when it was over, wondering why it had to come to this. Slowly, she walked back to her parent's farm, and to the smouldering ashes of her home. She sat in the rubble for some time, quietly reflecting on her life, when Eigengrau arrived.

"Does my apprentice have regrets?" Eigengrau asked, sitting next to Sirene. "It is only natural, those feelings are what make you human."