Chapter One
My name is Rose Hathaway. I'm sure you remember me, but it's been a while. Five years to be exact, and there has been a lot of changes. Queen Lissa—my best friend—has made it her life goal to make changes to our world, and after only five years things certainly are different. I'm no longer her guardian, for one. Actually, there aren't many guardian at all; dhampir are now purely Strigoi hunters along with a lot of Moroi who are willing to risk their lives—Christian, Lissa's boyfriend, of course being one of them.
Another thing that is really different is relationship statuses. After Sonya and Mikhail's wedding—which the queen fully supported—people started realizing that it didn't matter who got together: Moroi and dhampirs, dhampirs and dhampirs, whatever. No one carried. Adrian was still pushing for people to except Moroi getting together with Alchemist, but it wasn't going very well.
Eddie is now dating Jill—they came back from Palm Springs a view years ago when things became a little safer for her. He's not technology on duty, but he watches her like a hawk anyways. Adrian is still with Sydney, but she is no longer part of the Alchemists which made their relationship a lot easier. Angeline doesn't run with our circle much anymore. She found herself a boyfriend in Palm Springs but we see her every now and them. Mia on the other hand is around more than ever, and goes out with us to hunt more than Christian does.
As for Dimitri and me we had our own place a few miles away from Court. Don't ask me how, but that crazy Avery ended up getting a lot of things right when she created that word in my head. Nobody cared if we were together and I was close to Lissa. Almost every night we went out and hunted Strigoi, sometimes with Eddie, sometimes with my Moroi friends. It was life full of action and I loved it.