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My aunt was anolitch created in the conversion fro taste for human souls and had been branded a problem that needed to be dealt with, especially since souls, both light and dark, were essential to helping keep the universal balance She was tossed into the Hollow still alive as her punish to what Natalie had told y

Seventeen years later, Natalie escaped and arrived here in Trinity Her strange ability had evolved Now she was able to create h the "kiss" And they could do the saious disease That hy there was a barrier up, so none of us "infected" could spread this disease to the rest of the world It was an invisible citywide quarantine that would be here till ere all gone

Natalie had knoho I was And being that I was the daughter of a deht that my nexus abilities could help her on her path of destruction and revenge To do so, she got Stephen to rele kiss She’d used thea lid fro my supernatural abilities closed off to e and scary box were finally revealed She’d also promised that she was the only one who could lead ured he was still trapped in the Hollow

And yet, even though she presented this "upgrade" to ood and beneficial, I still had to deal with the hunger of a gray She’d told ers would fade for in with

The evil wos

A week had passed since she’d been killed, and, if anything, er was even worse than before

So Natalie failed She died before I could learn more information about my birth father’s whereabouts But before she was killed she’d used Bishop’s dagger to carve hiet me to do what she wanted It nearly worked I’d been very close to doing anything toBishop That er would chase away his growing confusion

"Are you all right?" Cassandra touchedme out of the horrible memory

"Yeah, fine" I inhaled shakily and looked up at the sky It was clear and black and studded with stars My eyes burned, but I sed back my tears

I tried to put on a brave face, but this was all still very new toto keep a high average in order to ensure a bright future--to not knowing if I’d have a future at all

Fear was not a friend All it did eaken me I couldn’t let myself be weak