D9 // Echo Lorlei Colburn [DONE]

Many wild, crazy ideas float around in her head. And where words seem so hard and far away from her, magic and dreams are as easy to conjure as every breath that she takes. Sometimes she dreams of speaking and saying every truth that she held so closely to her chest, but then the word would hesitate on her lips and they would never leave. The silence that seems to follow her is often filled to the brim with her own thoughts, for a girl so young she generally other thinks a lot of situations -the very thing that lead her to believing that the Colburns would give her back, once they found out that she remembered. It was another reason why she kept her cards so close to her, keeping them where only she would dare to grasp them and see them. No one can force her into anything, she knows that. By playing along with them, and what they believe she can stay safe.

To her the library isn't only just a way for her to let touches of her secrets litter pages of ancient books, but the stories and dreams that clung to each page gave her hope that the day that she finally told them who she was they would love her as much as she loved them. They wouldn't dump her and give her up. Her silence goes unnoticed by her family these days, words rarely escaping her lips. If anyone could ever see inside her head they would know that she truly speaks louder then anyone else, she just needed to find her voice.

Echo was never originally part of the family. In fact, just last year she was involved in a factory accident in which she suffered a bad head injury and went unconscious. No parents showed up when they handed her over to the doctors, and when she awoke, all she had to say was, “What happened?” The doctors diagnosed amnesia after running some tests, but couldn't find any record of the girl. She couldn't even remember her name. Doctor Colburn, despite the family's imminent debt, along with the fact that he'd already had to deal with one brain-damaged son, agreed to foster the girl until she regained her memory. She still hasn't, or so the Colburns believe. It took Echo—the name they've given her until she recalls her own—only about a week until she'd recovered her memories. However, she has no intention of telling the Colburns this. She loves them much more than her birth family, and she'd rather play pretend than go back. And for the record, she never did forget her real name. However, Echo often sits between some of the more abandoned bookshelves in the library, where they have the old science textbooks that nobody reads, and writes in them—things she can't quite say out loud, secrets about who her family really is. You'd be lucky to get a spoken word out of her.

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