As the red hot flames engulf the entirety of the old abandoned mansion in the middle of the forest, a young scar-faced girl hums a happy tune while flipping the pages of a book without care.
Andrea Gale, a child born from a mistress of the lord of a powerful county. After her mother died due to "suicide", the child was subjected to, and not restricted to, verbal and physical abuse in and out of the house.
At the age 12 Andrea was locked away in a dark and gloomy unused library of the old abandoned mansion owned by her father before he became a lord. She stayed there for days, it turned into months, and then famine came. Her stepmother, the main wife of her father, and her two stepsister and brother spread rumours about Andrea being a cursed child, the words reached one ear to another and unto another and again to another until the whole county named Andrea "The Cursed Child" and was the reason why everything as minor as the falling of a vase to the great famine blazed upon their county.
The people were enraged because of the famine prolonging than it should be so their solution was the death of child deemed as the sacrifice in exchange for rain to fall.
Though the night was quite as ghost and dark as an unending void, People marched across their lands with burning torch in hand that lights up the darkest hour until they have reached their destination.
"Light up the whole mansion!"
"Burn that accursed child!"
"She should've never been born!"
"Die! You witch!"
"Burn up the mansion!"
Andrea heard the yells of the savages outside but she never cared. She placed the old book she's reading back unto the burning shelf as the fire spreads and pillar are getting weaker and weaker as time passed by.
Andrea then knew that she could never go against her fate. She laid on the floor frozen like the fish on market.
Andrea giggled.
"The story of this angel has yet to end! I may have fallen but I will rise!"
That was her last words until a blazing pillar fell unto her body and burned her very being.
"ahhhhhhhh!!!!"
Screams were heard inside the mansion. While Andrea were screaming in agony, everyone outside cheered as the cursed child they willingly sacrificed to the Gods died.