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She is born in a storm. The ocean has never been kind, and it makes no exception for the new life. Meter high waves rocks the boat and rain falls like bullets, every few moments thunder is heard lightning light up the sky. The ocean has never been kind.
Her mother screams. It’s a scream filled with anger, with sorrow, with pain. Sweat makes her blond hair stick to her face and half moon indents cover her palms.
Her mother weeps. She knows that no matter what happens she has damned her child to a lifetime of suffering under Ivos hands. They will never be safe. Tears fall from her eyes, for the life she lost and for the life her child will never get to experience.
She is born screaming. Her voice rivaling the thundering sky. But a screaming child is a child full of life and a smile graces her mothers lips.
The first person to hold her is a monster. Anthony Ivo’s eyes are cold and calculating as he brings her into the world. What he sees is not a child but an experiment. Her life is in his hands and she was doomed the moment Ivo noticed her mothers growing stomach. The young woman had not been able to fight it, she was completely at his mercy. Like many others of the ships prisoners
She is poked and prodded. He looks for deformations and finds them, out of her back pokes two bony limbs, like that of a newly hatched bird. She has wings.
Finally, she is released into her mothers waiting arms, Sara Lance presses a kiss to her forehead and hugs her tight. She ignores Ivos low voice and his cold eyes, focusing instead on the baby in her arms, she has finally stopped screaming and lays quiet as a mouse in the warm embrace. The storm outside has not yet stopped, rain still hammering down above them as Sara closes her eyes and lets herself drift off, the ocean rocking her and the child in her arms to sleep. The ocean has never been kind and tonight's no exception.
On an island a lifetime away, Oliver Queen lays awake listening to the approaching thunder, and for just a moment he swears he hears a child’s cry, but the sound is gone as soon as it came, replaced by the winding wind and the falling rain.