Chapter 1: Prologue

I wasn't always so impassive.

When I was many years younger, I recall the orphanage during Christmas. Sitting under the tree, with the rest of my makeshift family, I recall the warmth of my first gift. It was a giant teddy bear, so big I couldn't hold it with my small hands-- at least back then. I thanked the director for the present, a bright smile across my face, and played with sister's ribbons, of which she attached to my hair. Childhood was like that- simple memories, gifts taken for granted, affection given easily. A kind orphanage director, siblings, and kind teachers. 

"Nothing gold can stay." Robert Frost. Like a cloud of cotton candy. 

The sweet memories melted in my mouth. And the next recollection I'd remember, in my dreams, is the sound of screaming children fighting like dogs. 

Dachshund. Maltese. Poodle. Canis Lupus Familiaris. Born a dog-- live the life of one. That's all that we are. Just dogs.

Since the genetic modification centuries ago, humans have gone extinct. The irony is that those beings had chose to end themselves-- in favor of becoming creatures unable to defy their instincts.

Crepidula fornicata. Seahorse. Osedax bone eating worms. Pycnogonid sea spiders. Wolves. And finally, last but not least, dogs. All of humanity changed their reproduction systems and mate finding methodologies for the sake of the race's survival. 

Yet, despite being an eager Pavlov's dog that surrendered to the ease of obeying, I was still thrown away. Like a prized cattle, I was sold off to the highest bidder-- the Russian mafia-- when my instincts as an "alpha" presented themselves. Most children would've rejoiced. Between being an omega born with fragile constitutions, and betas who are simply ordinary, alphas had overwhelming physical strength and a higher intelligence than most. 

But that was all it took for them to take me.

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