Eve was born running in front of her older brother. She was an energetic child growing up, always running, always laughing, always playing. She was always a "my pace" kind of individual and her childhood consisted of early memories of her father, brother, and mother being happy although their lesser-than-middle-class standing. As Eve reached the last years of her elementary school life her father just up and left. Never came back, and never left a reason why.

The family was of course, devastated. They needed the double income from both her mother and father to even sustain them. Her mother panicked and it was then when her uncle came into the family picture. Her dad's brother. He was never really spoken of by her father. In fact, Eve didn't even know her dad had a brother. Her mother promised he was only going to be here for awhile, just to help them out while their dad was no where to be found.

Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months, and months soon turned into years. Her mother was stressed working her job and her uncle was barely sober enough to even do his job properly. Middle-school flew by and her mother was too busy and never really around to do anything with. She was consistently over-worked, tired, and growing more stressed from the situation. Her uncle proved useless, spending more money than earning.

When their mother finally collasped from overwork in highschool, Eve and her brother Malbec went to the bar to drag their uncle back. He often drank at a very shady part of silverlight, so going there was always a bother for the siblings. It was extremely hard to locate and navigate to. They caught their uncle in the middle of a brawl in the bar, and rushed to intervene. Her brother jumped into the fray first and got in the way of a broken bottle aimed for his uncle resulting in getting his left eye slashed out. Running to her brother's aid, Eve punched the bearer of the broken bottle in the face and quickly assisted her brother and uncle as they escape from the bar fight. not noticing the faint colored stains on the bottle bearer's clothing. Bloodied knuckled and helping two males escape one of the shadier parts of the city near the curfew hour proved risky business, and soon enough the authorities would show up.

Their uncle was acting strange, he was quickly burning up and it was soon hot and hard to carry the haggard man. He broke down in the middle of the road, gripping Eve's shirt in horror. His eyes were dilated and the siblings were confused as to what was going on. They tripped and dropped in the process, their uncle's pulse quickly picked up.

"Hey Mal, what's wrong with him?! Is he on some sort of drugs or some shit? Hurry up let's go we can't be out this late!"

Eve started feeling dizzy herself, nauseated and hit with a sudden aura of migraines, she steadied her brother who was also heating up and left their uncle. They couldn't go home like this, bloodied, feverish, tired, and no uncle, what would their mother think?

With no place to turn to and worried about their mother's well being the siblings opted to stay away from home until things calmed down a bit.

They took refuge for the night when the curfew struck at an abandoned building, they avoided the other people, and Eve tried to patch up Malbec's eye with what she could. They tried to stay up all night to watch over eachother but then before they both realized, they had both passed out to fevers. When they awoke, their clothes where tinted a slight pink where their blood was.  They were surrounded by the homeless.

They were grinning, holding pieces of long disheveled cloth. Without a moment's notice the homeless jumped at the two. "You two are going to be our second chance at life!"

Fending off the assault, Eve couldn't even understand what was going on. "What are you even talking about?!" Her mother didn't have the money to file a missing persons report to the order, much less for two persons so why would apprehending them be of any worth to these people?

"You damn color infected kids are worth a lot!"

"What the fuck is he talking about Mal?" she turned to her brother for an explanation, but he was stuck in cold sweat. The terror that was in his face was evident. "S-shit.. W-we're..." he muttered.

"Mal?..."

"We gotta go NOW! We have to get out of here Eve!"

"What are you even-?!"

They ran from the homeless onto the streets, a fury of red.
"Have you heard of the Kaleidoscope?...."


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