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Monologue From 'Blood Fever' By Adelina Aderu, Little Wolf

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My name in Adelina Amouteru, Little Wolf is what my mother called me… that is until she died from the blood fever. The blood fever first hit in Estonia, where I once lived, then spread to the rest of the world. It infected a third of our population, killing all of our adults and left the kids with hideous scars of imperfection. My sister, Violetta, and I were unfortunate enough to be burdened with this curse. When I caught the fever my eye swelled so much that the doctor had to scoop it out with a blazing hot knife. Violetta, on the other hand, was perfectly fine and stayed as beautiful as she once was while I looked hideous. Before the fever, the people of Estonia saw my sister and me as the most beautiful girls in the whole city. They looked at me as someone’s mistress and is if I was here only for good time, but this was not true. …show more content…

I, like all the kids who were infected with the fever, was called malfettos. At first I was treated with the utmost respect, but after awhile the title ‘malfettos' started getting a bad rap. It was said that the blood fever gave some of us special abilities that caused havoc in the cities. One family was burned to ashes and others would have strange accidents which sometimes caused death. Since Violetta didn't seem to be infected with the blood fever, no one considered her a threat like as they did me. I remember my father, Martino Amouteru, taking me to the port every week asking me to show him what I was capable of. I tried and I tried, but nothing seemed to be working. On our way back home he murmured enough to where I could hear him say “you’re worthless.” After that evening, my father began to treat me like the others. He would beat me; once he even broke my pinky. I feared my father more than I feared anything else, so when he sold me as a slave to a strange man, I had no choice but to sneak outside my window and leave behind the only person I cared about,

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