[A moment of hesitation.]

You could say both. You see, there was an organization that used magic to create weapons from a whole big group of us. My sister Halua and I were the first successes, I think. I still looked human then, but they turned her into a monster.

And to make a long story short, in order to get control of my terrible power, I... absorbed hers. It changed my appearance, but I'm learning to be okay with it.