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When Esther was pregnant with her second son, she had a feeling that something was wrong. She wanted to get rid of the monster that was growing inside of her. Her husband, Mikeal, had begged and pleaded for her not to, to let the child be born and grow up, to see what would become of him. He pleaded for nights on end; his persistence almost wore her down. In the end, what truly got her to keep it, the abomination, was her current eldest, her only truly living child. Finn had asked what his name was going to be; he wanted to have something, someone that he could protect. She took that thing to term. She almost hoped she would die in childbirth if that meant it never seeing the light of day, of it dying with her. The worst part about both of them surviving was that the thing, her baby, was beautiful. She thought for almost a second, that one day she may learn to love that thing they were now calling their baby.