MARGARET'S ADVENTURES
PROLOGUE
Margaret Moore was born in deep in the Romanian Mountains in 1949, in a region commonly known as Transylvania. She was the only child of a Witch and a Warlock who were killed by humans in 1950. Margaret was adopted by her aunt and uncle, but she and her extended family were too consumed by their fight for their survival that they never learned the magic that was their birthright.
However, in 1969, when Margaret had turned 20, her aunt and uncle successfully procured Refugee Status for her in Canada. Her aunt and uncle were offered the same thing, but they preferred to stay behind and continue fighting for the day that their ancestral homeland would be safe for them once again. So Margaret went on the flight to Toronto, Ontario by herself and was greeted by the Ontario Premier's representatives when she landed. After showing them her resume and some of her advanced technical skills, she was given a Permanent Resident Card and sponsored at a nearby technical college.
Over the next five years, Margaret earned an advanced Bachelor's Degree and then a Masters Degree in Urban Engineering at U of T. By the time she was 25 years old, in 1974, she was fully qualified to work as an Urban Planner for the Toronto Waterfront Authority. She remained in that position for the next 21 years, during which time she bought a small cottage near Bass Lake outside Orillia.
In 1995, Margaret retired, at the age of 46, and settled in at her cottage outside Orillia. She began slowly teaching herself magic, using her family's spell book that her aunt and uncle had sent along with her to Canada 26 years before. Her early attempts were only moderately successful, which was why when Andrew and Sarah met her in May 1997, Margaret could only use magic to make meals.
Margaret had mainly focussed on applying her technical skills towards adapting her red car for flight, using the plans sent by her family and the parts she got from various auto shops and military bases. But after the first encounter with Alexander in May 1997, and his subsequent defeat in June 0f 1998, Margaret decided to modify her car for full spaceflight, after moving into Orillia to get closer to the auto part shops. She also installed the miniaturization matrix that allowed her to shrink her car down into a small red box. So by December 1998, Margaret was ready to leave Earth for the first time and visit other planets in her space-worthy red flying car.