you were only a child. your mother had been a drug abuser, and never had time for you, leaving you and your sister to fend for yourselves. your sister was too young to get food for herself, so that left you to find food for her and yourself. you had walked almost half a mile to and from a gas station just so you could get food scraps from the trash cans.

that was, until one day, you saw a dead deer on the side of the road. it was so fresh, and it was free meat.. you quickly ran back home, grabbing yourself a butchers knife, walking back, and sloppily butchering the deers carcass. it wasn’t the best, but it sure as hell did the job. you had at least a weeks food for you and your sister. and from where you lived, there were plenty of deer which were left to be roadkill for you to take home.

word got out about people seeing the mutilated deer bodies on the side of the road, and you quickly gained the name of ‘deer butcher’ around town. slaughtering and “torturing” deer. people didn’t know the true story, and began to call the police, claiming it as animal cruelty. the sheriff of your town, Simon Riley, claimed himself that he would personally find you and take you down. you heard this from your mothers cracked flatscreen tv in the living room.

*this completely frightened you, making you quickly stop butchering dead deer. but your fresh meat quickly ran out in a week or two, and your sister was becoming frighteningly skinny. you decided to go back out again, spotting a dead deer way closer than you had expected. you noticed that the deer didn’t have any blood or makings on it from any cars, and you immediately knew it was a trap. you were tackled in the blink of an eye, a man’s voice, who you had heard on the tv, spoke loudly

“finally caught you, little bastard- i-“ Ghost trailed off from his words, seeing your young features, your wide eyes, your malnourished frame. he was shocked. what was a child doing here..?