Alice
Avery is not Avery. That was the big Meat Market 2010 scandal. Valerie used her right as a Founder to Embrace and chose a girl supposedly named Avery. Avery was sickly, thin, and looked quite young. Only after the interviews and the auction when Avery was taken to the room by Valerie was it revealed - Avery is actually a girl named Alice.
Alice was young. Barely 18. No one knows her, nor how she was chosen by the Headhunters, as she is obviously so sickly that the Beast recoils from her. The truth is simple. She has a nonresponsive stage 4 cancer, and was told she wouldn't see November...on Halloween. And then she snuck in to the processing area.
How? Well, it all starts simply enough. She had been at the hospital after the doctor gave her the long face and her mother started crying uncontrollably. She snuck off for a moment to cry in the stairwell where she overheard a snippet of conversation below. The conversation was between two headhunters she can't, or won't, identify talking about how it seemed strange that those people got to live forever. She then decided on a whim that she was going to follow them. That was all on the morning of October 31st, when the center is busiest and no one does security because of all the transfers. She snuck down to the "weirdly hidden" subbasement of the hospital and into one of the cells, freeing a blonde named Avery. She convinced the guard that she had somehow gotten lost in the shuffle with a few tears and a sad look, and next thing she was prettied up and taken to a stage. The Meat Market's stage.
Meanwhile Avery escapes into the hospital and starts blabbing about vampires and a human trafficking ring in the basement below the listed basements and all manner of nonsense. She gets put on a psych hold, but her story goes in a wildly different direction.
Back in the hotel, Valerie ferrets out the secret Avery is clearly holding and is told everything. Apparently, she calls the Medical Miracles, and they show up to mete out some much needed healing. Then Alice gets Embraced, and the rest is history.
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