Their behavior could be ...adapted.
It was a cruel thought to some, but monsters thought differently.
They were excited by the idea.
Monsters couldn’t be broken, or molded.
They were born.
They could only get more monstrous or die.
Manipulating an injured magpie, one that he’d so cruelly tormented by crushing its eggs year after year, making it reliant on him until it became his only friend.
That was ugly.
Evil even.
Chad was a magpie.
Romeo was a monster.
That hadn’t changed.
All Romeo needed to do was catch him.
Chapter Eight
When Chad had set hisheart on getting a dog, Romeo couldn’t deny him.
Romeo knew how important Toby, Chad’s childhood labrador, had been to him, but it still caught him by surprise when he found the leaflet in the kitchen drawer.
Romeo had read about Mercutio, formally Gary.He’d looked at his picture, a skinny looking thing, for a long time, and had felt nothing.
Pets were not his thing.
The magpie he’d taken care of after finding it with a broken wing, was not his pet.
