Shadow woke up, she was in a medical bed in a large near empty room. Clearly a medical bed for higher rank soldiers. She tryed sitting up, unrelenting pain made her foam at the mouth and breathe heavily. What the hell happened! I can't remember anything! Shadow looked around the room, it became more tent like as she observed. The grey, green walls breathed with the wind, a flat roof wanted to collapse underneath rocky rubble. Two doors at the opposite side of Shadow flapped open. It was Clyde and Connor. They came to check up on Shadow. They pulled up two chairs and looked at her, silently waiting for her to allow to them to check her. Shadow looked back at them and smiled, she can't remember a single time of her mother medically helping her. She can't remember her mother ever helping her with anything, she only came into her life two years ago, and Shadow's 14! It was always Clyde and Connor, no matter what or where they were there, whether she liked it or not. She knew them better than anyone and they too knew her better than anything. "Clyde. Connor." Shadow spoke, uncertain if she should be letting her curiosity get the best of her, "I know you guys are Martians... but you never have that odd smell of one, nor do you reek of it like the adults do. How come? And also why did you leave your planet, would it have been better there instead of living in a planet full of dam wars?"
Clyde looked at Connor, his blue eyes shining with deep uncertainty. Connor however continued to stare at Shadow, his purple eyes gazing into his past. He put his hand on Clyde's cheek and pulled him over for a kiss before he could say anything to Shadow. Connor whispered in Clyde's ear hoping Shadow's sharp hearing couldn't listen. "Clyde, if you continue saying these I don't know speeches to the poor girl she'll end up having to ask people if it's ok to breathe! Besides honey, we got to tell someone our past."
Clyde sighed, he knew Connor was right, and put his head in his hands. Blue hair poked and peeped through the spaces between his hands. Connor put his hand on Clyde's back and shifted through his red hair with his other hand. "Shadow, I think it's time to tell you this. We're not fully Martian, we are actually half Domnae(DOM-nae), an old alien species that went extinct more than a megaannus ago. As a matter of fact you and your father's blood have Domnae ancestors. Because we were only half Martian we got thrown out of our families, of our homes, of our civilization, we became outcasts. Being an outcast use to okay but now, outcasts have been disappearing and then spotted as deformed demons on an unknown planet." 

Clyde's head popped up, he took on the talking now. Connor tried to stop himself from laughing at Clyde's dumbfounded face and bedhead hair, but fell on the floor silently giggling instead. "*sigh* one day when we were sitting on an "airport" bench, when all of a sudden a nice couple." "Nice couple! CLYDE HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FUCKING MIND!"
Connor was now sitting straight up with an insane look on his face. "They were nice when we met them. I'm trying to put this in our prospective. Anyway... Shadow don't even try to interrupt.... they bought us tickets and took us to Earth with them. Sadly to say neither us nor them got their own bedrooms, it was them, their 3 kids and us,but it was a fabulous room! Never been in Top Class." "CLYDE! STOP SUGAR COATING THINGS! DONT EVEN GIVE ME THAT LOOK! Even Shadow knows you're going to skip over what they... did..." Connor shook with disgust and continued, regretting ever letting Clyde talk to Shadow. "What they did... is worse than knowing what goes on in your mother's head. They loved each other to death, but they have nothing for their children. Many nights they starved their youngest daughter, even us but we honestly couldn't complain. They did much for us and seeing this side of them... I'm surprised they didn't stab us with knifes for the fun of it. They abused each child... And when the mother was gone for a long time... The father... he... He raped the girls... I know nothing could be worse than what happened but, when their oldest daughter was able to leave they bought her gifts and gave her so much affection."
Not needing to know the rest of the story, since BayaDane took them in off the streets, Shadow stood up. She fell back down, twiching in pain. She spoke through breaths "But Connor, who are they? They should pay for what they did..."
Clyde took Shadow's hand and began to check her, "Shadow you'll kill yourself if you keep moving. For once in your life think for yourself. There's nothing you can do if your dead. Besides we don't know any of their names." "Well-" Connor now spoke "all we know is that their youngest daughter is named Sephrina."