The O.M.E.N. Program

Prologue (Garden)

Hi. My name's Garden, Garden Estrane. I don't know why you seem so interested in me. I'm just an average kid. Except for the fact I kill anything on contact. Yea, that's right. My family isn't much more normal than me. My adopted family anyway.

My adopted parent is Luna Estrane, the town psychic. She can sorta see the near future, but she can see exactly how anyone will die. Her eyes don't have color and her hair has streaks of white. People call her Estranged Loony.

My adopted siblings are Naiad, Kyneê, Tālāris, and Dion. They're all a little older than me. We're known as the freaks of town, the Estranged, because of our mom. We hide our abilities and look normal when seen by others.

Naiad has it the worst out of all of us when it comes to hiding her abilities and stuff. She can breathe underwater and can swim extremely fast, but it comes with a catch. Her skin, eyes, and hair all have a slight blue tint, she has gills, webbed fingers and toes, and scales in some places.

Kyneê can turn invisible, but she's naturally albino. Her ability accentuates her condition so she has red eyes. When she turns invisible she gets stuck like that for a while too.

Tālāris looks completely normal, but he has giant white wings protruding from his back that he has to bind. But he doesn't mind since he would bind his chest anyway. He goes out and flies above town sometimes.

Dion has brown hair and purple eyes. If he lets his hair grow too long the ends will fade into green. He wears color contacts and keeps his hair really short to look normal. He can control vines and other plants, but for some reason has really good alcohol tolerance. He's also really unpredictable and flirtatious.

Then there's me. I was born with the ability to control blood flow to the brain. If I touch someone for a certain amount of time different things will happen. One second makes people lose focus, two seconds equals hallucinations, three seconds knocks people out, four seconds equals memory loss, and five seconds equals death. I also have dark maroon hair, and my eyes are two different colors, yellow (right) and orange (left). I normally wear a wig and color contacts to be perceived as normal.

But anyway, that was the rundown on my family for you. I guess this is my story. OUR story.