Prologue

I have raven-black hair that goes all the way to the middle of my thighs. It's done up in hundreds of braids that end with bone beads, but they are hidden under my soot-black cloak embedded with a red spider web pattern. My skin is lily white and my facial and body features are of elfin stature, with my eyes having no set hue, they change to my mood, and my lips are a blood red color. I am what you could consider an Immortal. I travel through time and space helping the friends I make and doing whatever strikes my fancy.

I'm clad in a new-age renaissances gown that is red with black spider web lace over it with the sleeves coming halfway down my hands and the dress stopping just above the knees in the front and a detachable train at floor length in the back, showing off my matching five-inch heels.

Traveling with me are my five guardians: a black panther, two white wolves, and two giant maroon spiders. All of them having a scarlet red blaze on their foreheads, but only the panther could be seen to others at the moment, since I did not want to stir everyone into a panic.