Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER! I only own this plot….(but it won't make me rich)…sniffle..

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Prologue:

T'was quite late at night as a tall blue-eyed brunette walked on a cliff smelled the sea's salty scent as she made her way away from a cave she'd just been in. She felt woozy, exhausted, and drained. Yet she was satisfied that she succeeded in her task. She was now wearing a golden locket with a serpent-like 'S' engraved on it. Her lips curled in a smirk at the memory of the note she left for 'the dark lord' signing with just her initials: R.A.B. Her dark blue robes ruffled around her as the wind blew while she was looking at the dark blue sea. She gazed upon it one last time before she left for good and pondered on its color. At dawn it was a shade of light pink like the sky it reflected, it shifted to the sky blue in the morning and afternoon, it was and orange-drink at sunset, then became black as the night awaiting dawn. It shifted, just like she did. It was always changing out ward appearances, like herself. But in the end it was only water. It would always be water; Crystal clear water, in disguise. Yes, she concluded. She was like the water, always in disguise.

Inhaling the salty air once more she focused on her destination, with determination. She disappeared without a sound, seeing as the crashing tide was loud enough to block the 'pop' sound of apparation. And there'd be no proof Riley Alexandra Black was ever there at all.

A/N: sorry for how short it is. I like short prologues and thought I'd write one for this story. In the next chapter I'll reveal her past… and for those wondering, she's not Sirius's long lost daughter.