Chapter 1: Information
My name, Lyra Giordano, well at least right now it is. My original name?, Leonilda. My name has changes so many times I can't even keep count anymore. I'm not your ordinary girl; actually nothing about me is ordinary. I'm beautiful, or so I'm told. Most people say I'm so beautiful, it's hard to look at me but most people are so intrigued, they can't resist. I have short, very dark brown hair, very pale, flawless skin and piercing green eyes. I also have very prominent cheekbones and perfect soft pink lips. I look about 18-22 years old. (Picture in profile)
The reason for my beauty? I'm immortal; I am not a vampire though. I've been living so long, I can't remember the year I was born. All I know is, it was a very, very long time ago. The reason for both my immortality and my beauty? It was picked for me, or more as though I was picked for it.
My first life, when I was born, I lived in a tribe. The couples in the tribe were arranged so the offspring would be better than the generation before them. Not just for looks, but for intelligence, personality, and many more things. Every 500 years, a certain couple was put together. This couple was chosen to carry an offspring that the witch of our tribe created to become an immortal child. When the couple was being picked, it took lots of time for the elders of our tribe to decide which two people were good enough and which two people were honorable enough. The elders always looked for quality. Beautiful physical traits and other traits such as obedience, knowledge, patience, and many more. I'm only the second immortal of our tribe. I've never met the other one. And there's a reason for that. After a certain age, every immortal moves away from the tribe to live on their own, to be used to being alone. There is never a particular age when they leave, but when the elders think they're ready. My parents were every different. My mother was very beautiful. She had long, blonde curly hair, the color of fresh hay. She had fair, flawless skin and gorgeous brown eyes that you could get lost in. I also got my cheekbones from her. She had prefect teeth, straight and gleaming white. My father was also very handsome. I got the color of my hair from him. He had tan skin and his eyes were a nice spring green with a little bit of silver in them. That's where I got my eyes.
After the immortal child is born, they are treated like royalty. That's a good and bad thing. It's good because I would get whatever I asked for. It's bad because I was never allowed to do things that normal children get to do. Every immortal child is born with a power, but in my case, I was born with two. I could compel people (just like in Vampire Diaries!) and I could teleport. I called it blinking, I called it this because all I would have to do is think of a place where I wanted to be and then just blink and I would be there (Just like in Charmed!).
I left my tribe when I was sixteen years old. Since then, I've learned many languages and been to most countries. Now in the year 2011, I've decided to go to the United States of America. I haven't decided what state I'm going to live in yet, but I will be enrolling in high school, a place that I've been so many times before. I will also buy an apartment and claim to be emancipated.