San Francisco by Night
Echo
"Echo" was born in St.Petersburgh Russia. Her parents were poor, so when she was a few days old they left her on the steps of a church run orphanage; asking the nuns to care for their daughter. The sisters hoped to place Echo with a family quickly but it did not happen, everyone always said the same thing.."There was something strange about the child."
So the sisters raised Echo teaching her the ways of the church, the laws of God and all aspects of religious beliefs.As she grew older Echo helped out at the soup kitchen, and helped in teaching the word of God to the homeless and the street kids.
This was her passion, her life was God. At least she thought it was until one day when she was 12 and strange things started happening. Light bulbs would heat up and the explode, or the temperature in a room she was in would rise. She would also get sudden painful flashes running through her head. Echo tried her hardest to hide these things from the Sisters, but they found out. Right then and there they cast her onto the streets, filled with sadness and pain Echo turned to drugs, any kind as long they would numb the heart ache she felt from being thrown out twice in her young life.
After that Echo live on the streets of Russia for a while, until one day a man in his 20's came and said he would take her to America as long as she agreed to work for him. She did,he got her to kick the drugs, and work for him as a prostitute. One night after being savagely beat and raped in a blind rage Echo went after him. Before she could even hit him he fell to the floor unconscious. Echo stabbed him until he was dead, realizing what she had done she ran, took all the money she had and took a bus to San Fransisco having heard about it once from a friend of hers.
She works where ever she can find a job, not speaking very good english it is hard, but she gets by. She also pays penence every night to God, praying asking for forgiveness. Wanting nothing more than to be forgiven for the monster she has been told she is.
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