1934 Alice in Jails: Streets/Regarding Lamia

Synopsis
Adele Speaks Nervously to Tim Adele explains that the majority of Lamia's members are ageless homunculi, sentient beings who are a little different from humans. Rather than their nature necessarily differentiating them - despite their agelessness, they can still be killed like humans - she attributes their inherent, sempiternal abnormality to their time in Huey Laforet's laboratory.

While in the laboratory, the Lamia were treated as "things." The researches who caused them pain and tampered with their bodies hardly ever explained the meaning of their actions, and as such, the Lamia are all broken. Some went insane while others tried to voluntarily break themselves, and most if not all Lamia members intentionally tried - and still try - to distinguish themselves from normal humans.

Adele lists Christopher Shaldred, Hong Chi-Mei, Leeza Laforet, Sham, Hilton, Rail, Frank, the Poet, Sickle, and herself as the surviving members of Lamia - albeit still broken - and she believes none of them know whether their brokenness is on purpose or a manifestation of madness after all. However, she admits she likes everyone the way they are, as they suffered the same treatment and are ultimately like her. Even if the bond between them all is fake, she is grateful for it anyway.

Characters in Order of Appearance

 * Adele (speaking)
 * Hong Chi-Mei, Rail, Frank, The Poet, Sickle (illustrated only)

Quotes

 * "We...um... We were nothing but 'things', you see... When they tampered with our bodies...or inflicted pain on us... To us, it was meaningless. They only rarely told us what it meant at all. We're broken... All of us, every single one..." —Adele