Disclamer:

Me: Rose do the disclaimer.

Rose: No I'm to badass for that.

Me: Well if you don't do the disclaimer then I'm gonna say I own Dimitri...

Rose: OK OK FINE! Richelle Mead owns everything except for Dimitri. I own Dimitri.

Me: Nice Rose.

Rose: Fuck you.

PREFACE:

Hello, my name is Rose Hathaway. Three years ago I left my old life behind and completely reinvented myself. I was awaiting wrongful execution in my jail cell when my mobster father Ibraham Mazur broke me out of jail and helped my put my plans in action. With his help I faked my own death and set off to Russia bringing only two people with me: Abe and Mikhail Tanner. When I arrived in Russia I did the only thing I could think of. I contacted my alchemist friend Sydney,the love of my life Dimitri Belikov's sister Viktoria, and Mark and Oksana, a bonded couple I met in Russia. Together Mikhail, Abe, Sydney, Viktoria and I have made a bad-ass league of the most lethal Dhampirs and offensive magic and compulsion using Moroi ever created. We are secret from the Moroi and Dhampir world and we have about thirty recruits at the moment. Once someone joins our ranks we have some of our people contact their friends and family and they are declared dead. We can't have people questioning where they are while they are out on missions to kill Strigoi and anyone else we need must be kept a secret.

Once a year we have about a hundred people come in as possible recruits for our organization. They are put through rigorus mental and physical training and the three month long training is practically unbearable. We kick people out of training if we find they aren't prepared to join our ranks. By the end of the first week about twenty people are already gone. By the end of the first month about sixty are gone. By the end of the three months about ten people are remaining. They then join us as deadly assassins and ruthless Strigoi killers. Once someone gets kicked out during training we have our compulsion using Moroi erase their memory of ever training with us. We are in control of our emotions and actions and we don't let our feelings get in the way of our jobs.

Abe, Sydney, and Oksana are in charge of training the Moroi. Abe teaches them how to use their elemental magic as a weapon and Oksana teaches them to use compulsion because Spirit users are especially good with compulsion. Sydney, who Mikhail, Viktoria and I trained in fighting, trains the Moroi physically. Their magic is their greatest asset, but they need to learn to fight if their going to be facing Strigoi. Mikhail, Viktoria and I train the Dhampirs to be much stronger, faster and better fighters than any normal guardian will ever be. Fighting is second nature to us, it's in our blood. We don't have to tell our muscles what to do, we just let our instincts take over That's just the way we live. If anyone in our orginization tells someone on the outside about us, they are killed and our Moroi erase the memory of anyone they told. We have very strict rules and regulations and breaking rules simply cannot be tolerated

Tomorrow the new recruits arrive. Me along with the other leaders will examine the new group. We aren't very tolerant of mistakes, we need absolute perfection in this group. One hundred people arrive at exactly eight A.M. tomorrow. Anyone who's late will be cut immediatly. They've been told why they're coming and they better be prepares. I haven't seen a complete list of the arriving recruits but one of them is Karolina Belikov. Viktoria and I have actually kept in touch with the Belikovs'...well all the Belikov's except one. Dimitri doesn't know that we're alive and as far as he knows we've both been dead for three years now. But Olena, Yeva, Sonya, Karoline and Paul know we're alive and we talk to them at least once a week unless we're out on a mission. And speaking of people who think I'm dead, Vasilissa Dragomir- my former best friend and current bondmate- also thinks I'm dead. At first she was devestated but she has been improving thanks to the help of Christian Ozera, who is now her fiance. Well I don't know if she's actually improving since I haven't checked our bond in almost two years now- Oksana gave me a charmed ring that blocks out her feelings- but Adrian says she's improving.

Yeah, Adrian knows I'm not dead. I didn't have tell him I faked my death, he reached my in a Spirit dream and so I told him everything. He's promised to keep my secret on the terms that I let him stalk my dreams. Adrian is really my only connection to my old life, but I don't ask about how anyone's doing. I just don't want to know. I get really sad when I hear about them. Initially after I faked my death I went through a stage of depression and I cut myself like Lissa used to do. Once Adrian reached me in my dreams he got me to stop. But the truth is I miss my old life sometimes. But I'm happy where I am. Viktoria, Sydney and I are like sisters now and Mikhail, Mark and Oksana are very close friends with me. Abe and I have a closer relationship now. But I still don't call him dad. I call him Abe...or Zmey.

I have killed fifty one strigoi in the past three years and I have Mikhail put marks on the back of my neck. But not molnija marks. Here you get marks shaped like the letter 'R' (it stands for Rose because I founded the orginization) and they are blood red. On my neck I have two molnija marks, one battle star, one promise mark and fifty one Death Marks on my neck. That's what our marks are called. Death Marks. You get a Death Mark for every time you kill. I have so many that they go down nearly to my back at this point. So much death. Caused by me. Well, killing is my job.

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