The Reaction

"Most people called them 'hybrids.' Rose's father David called it a 'condition.' An illness, a disease. For forty-one days out of every six weeks, she looked human, For that terrible, final day, she was--nothing. Not human, at any rate, not sane either. Her normal self --her human self--had no control over what she did. She was a creature of pure magic, and she was programmed to kill. She was fifteen years old. And she was a monster"--