The Truthful Start.

My life is like a book, chapters opening and ending. With each new child born, another battle is fought and the pages are then written.

I possess the power of good and evil, given to me by my former lover Starius. I do not know if he still lives but his spirit lives on inside me. My eternal lover Artemis lays asleep in the bed we share, totally deaf to the sounds of the quill scratching the paper with each stroke.

I still feel the flutters of the child I still bear, its life stuck in limbo. Starius once told me that when I was ready, I would die and the baby inside me would carry on my legacy.

I look up at the moon and stars, longing to see my children again. They are no longer alive, dying of a disease carried by slave traders. Matitia and Aphrodite were in their prime, carelessly took away from me. Their children live;, unaware of the woman who gave birth to their mothers, watching.

My name is Iyari and this is my story.