Long, long ago, the ancient Mayans prophesied that a child would be born with red eyes, and that this child would one day change the world. The priest died while relaying the prophesy, so it was never known when the child would be born, or weather they would change the world for the better...
Or the worse.
Centuries later, not one, but two children were born with red eyes. They were born to a minor nobleman out of a seven-year-long affair with a servant woman, who kept watch over the well in the castle courtyard to make sure that the water was clear.
The woman was terrified of her own children. From the first days of their lives, the world seemed thrown out of balance. Her daughter Delilah, pale and ivory-haired, would sit quietly in the corner of the house, doing nothing. Her son Dorian, six years the younger, had pure, deep red hair, matching his eyes and bloodthirsty nature. No other inhabitants of the castle would approach them, fearing they were demons. Their own father was afraid. He himself had a strong belief in magic. There were magic books that he had confiscated from the townspeople hidden in a secret place in his library.
Whenever either of the children drew water from the well, it came up black. Soon, all the water from the castle well had turned blacker than ink. Delilah, Dorian and their mother were sentenced to live out the rest of their lives in the well-keeper's shack.
Undeterred, the nobleman still came to be with the servant woman. Many a night Delilah and Dorian were forced to listen to their parents go at it as they sat with their backs turned on the other side of their one-room home. Though, once, the nobleman came drunk. He left the door unlocked behind him and took the woman to a clearing in the forest that surrounded the castle. A passing group of hunter mistakenly shot and killed them, thinking they were animals.
And what of the children?
Unknown to anyone, Delilah and Dorian had followed their parents into the forest and watched them die. This was the breaking point for their already fragile minds, sending them down a path from which there is no return. The path of vengeance.
Delilah devised a last-minute, desperate plan just before the sun rose and someone found them missing. She and her brother stole into the castle library and took one book. They supposedly died soon after, but their bodies were never recovered. Rumors still haunt the area about seeing Delilah and Dorian walking the streets, looking for souls to trade to the devil in return for their mother and father. People inexplicably disappear and the siblings are blamed.
Centuries after them, a new set of siblings almost identical to them was born with grey eyes:
Drew Saturday and Doyle Blackwell.