>>21079315ArKade chuckles to herself. “But… it seems to me you got something a lil twisted, yeah? My fate sealed? The date of my execution? Feels to me, like ya think putting me in a match like this means ya got me right where ya want me blud.”
“So let me put that right, and teach you just who the fuck Arleen Kade was, and who ArKade is blud.”
“See, I could tell you Arleen was born in the rough ends of London. That she was destined for the streets and that. But that’d be a lie. See, Arleen’s mum, she’s got bare paper off of her dead ex-husbands. All four of em. And she raised her girls in a rich part of town.”
“But the thing is, Arleen wasn’t like her, or her sisters. Because Arleen had an accident in a swimming pool when she was a wee lass and something in her just wasn’t there anymore like it was in the rest of the Kade family after that. It was like they were all part of this whole other world that just wasn’t open to Arleen no more, so Arleen started to realise she just didn’t belong. Cause her sisters and mum didn’t give a fuck about her no more.”
“But everyone wants family, innit. So Arleen went looking for a new one, and she found it on the streets. And Arleen’s new family taught her how to lie, how to steal. She watched how the mandem live and die by the blade. Gal like Arleen learned that if she was gonna survive with her new family, she was gonna have to be evolve, and grow into someone else. So Arleen died peacefully, and ArKade was born in blood and screams.”
