A/N - Sorry this is so short. The chapters are supposed to be diary entries, so I just decided to keep them short.
I saw her for the first time today. Athenodora's beauty is nothing compared to this girl; I found it hard to keep my eyes away from her. Her name - I heard someone call for her - is like music. Angela. Its melody plays in my ears now even as I try to forget her for my wife's sake. Of course, my memory is perfect, and will not allow her image to leave my mind. I have never felt such a pull toward anyone in my three thousand or so years on this earth. Even to my own wife, I only feel a slight attraction. This young human - at least, I think she is human - must be my true mate. La mia anima gemella, my soulmate.
Her hair is like pure copper spun into thread as luscious as silk. Her skin is almost as pale as my own, but her eyes are a dark blue-grey rather than red or amber, which is why I suspect her to be human. I have not yet seen her in the sun, so I don't really know. She is petite, with a beautiful face that makes her seem much older than she really is, though I think she may be a teenager. This is something that makes me a little repulsed at the connection I feel to her. I suppose I am being rather stupid, as she will also someday be 22, the same age as I was when I was changed. I can wait for her, as long as she stays in one place. I think I will find a way to somehow keep her here, in Volterra. I cannot bear the thought of her leaving me.