Broken Why do you cry for them Eleven? After everything they did to you? Hmm? You think need but don't. Oh I know you're just scared. was scared once too. what it's like be different. To alone in this world. Like you didn't fit with the other children. Something wrong me. All teachers and doctors said was… said. My parents thought a change of scenery fresh start Hawkins might cure It absurd. As if world would any different here. But then… my surprise our new home provided discovery. And newfound sense purpose. found nest black widows living inside vent. Most people fear spiders. They detest them. yet them endlessly fascinating. More than that great comfort A kinship. me are solitary creatures. deeply misunderstood. gods The most important all predators. immobilize feed on weak bringing balance order an unstable ecosystem. human disrupting harmony. see humans unique type pest multiplying poisoning world while enforcing structure their own. unnatural structure. Where others saw order straitjacket. cruel oppressive dictated by made-up rules. Seconds minutes hours days weeks months years decades. Each life faded lesser copy one before. Wake up eat work sleep reproduce die. Everyone is waiting. Waiting it over. performing silly terrible play day after day. could not that. close off mind join madness. pretend. realized have to. make own restore broken predator…but good. practiced more possibly imagined. reach into others minds memories. became explorer. as truly were. presented themselves good normal people. else lie. had done things Eleven. Such awful things. showed who really held up mirror. naive father believed demon cursing sins. mother somehow knew. Knew holding that mirror she despised me it. She called doctor expert. wanted him lock away fix even though wasn't broken. so left no choice. No choice act. break free. With each took grew stronger. powerful. were becoming part still child. yet limits. nearly killed He arrested blamed death sister mother planned. far from woke coma only find myself placed care very doctor hoped escape. Dr. Martin Brenner. Papa. truth…the truth he want study more. control. When Papa finally control tried recreate began program. soon born. am glad were So glad. They're gone In Tricked No saved you. prisoner here your papa nothing animal monster lab rat tamed. truth Eleven opposite. better are. Superior. That why frighten him. If come first time life will Imagine we together. We reshape remake however see fit. Join