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Shadows of the Mind
Prologue
In Rock Springs, Wyoming, a young girl sits in a beautiful clearing beside a stream; she has long, slightly wavy, chestnut hair. She is fair-skinned, slim, and about 4'9" tall, with eyes the color of pine needles. This young girl's name is Alcina Kanika Nakamura, and today is her thirteenth birthday.
The peaceful silence of the clearing is shattered by a male voice saying, "Happy birthday, Jewel."
This statement is swiftly followed by a yelp of pain as "Jewel's" fist connects firmly with the speaker's mid-drift.
Alcina continues to strike the male while asking, "What's so happy about it? Every year since I turned ten, I've felt as if I don't belong anywhere anymore, and yet, it's been three years now, and I still haven't figured out why I feel this way or where I belong."
At the end of her tirade, she stops her beating of the boy, who happens to be her older brother Yasuo, and looks to him as if expecting an answer to her dilemma from him. Yasuo gets up from the ground carefully, so as not to aggravate his newly forming bruises, and smiles lovingly at his angry younger sister before saying, "You'll understand when it's time for you to understand."
Of course, Yasuo had no idea at the time how right he would turn out to be. Less than a year later, Alcina figured out exactly why she felt out of place and where she belonged.
My name is Alcina Kanika Nakamura, and up until my thirteenth year of human life, that was the only name I knew. These are the records of what I remembered and what happened after my memories returned. On my fourteenth human birthday, I left the Human world, I thought for good, severing all ties I had there, to return to where I truly belonged, the Demon World. I had no plans of ever returning, or of ever contacting my human "family" again; they were of no use to me now.
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