Prelude
Susie Donnefeld has a normal life. She had a boyfriend who loved her. A relatively boring job in a museum. She went to school. Apart from having an absent father, she didn't have any family drama.
That is, until she met Lydianna, her boyfriend, Elliot's younger sister. Younger half-sister anyway. She was two years younger than Susie, but what she lacked in size and age, she made up for in adaptive ability. She had a sort-of Asian look about her, but she wasn't very remarkable looking otherwise. Brown eyes, black hair, didn't wear much makeup, always wore the same silver and gold chain necklace.
When you talked to her, it was a completely different story. She could mimic any accent just from hearing it, she could tell when dangerous things were about to happen. Sometimes Susie thought that she could read minds or see the future.
Elliot was very protective of her when she was herself, though. She seemed naive, scared, a bit off her head, but she always snapped out of it. Lydianna was three years younger than Elliot. Elliot's mother divorced his father a few months after he was born, and then married Lydianna's mother, a Phillipino woman.
The siblings look nothing alike, but couldn't be closer. At times, they had Susie fooled by one of their many pranks. Lydianna and Elliot had the same father, but their mothers were married to each other. No one but the people involved really knew the details of that situation. Everyone just accepts it and moves on.
Susie's mother and Elliot's mothers are a part of a book club led by Susie's fourth grade teacher, who otherwise has no role in their lives at all. Lydianna often found it funny to mess with her fragile psyche. She would always dress up in funky clothes and impersonate a new person every time book club was held at either her's or Susie's house. Lydianna Winchester was a weird one, but, boy, was she amusing.
I am sad to say that all of their lives changed when Lydianna completely shut down. She wouldn't talk to anyone; not even Elliot. All she ever did was draw pictures of odd looking people that were always a different color. The two most frequent ones had names, or at least what looked like names.
She drew one that was a light yellow with orange eyes. This one was Rooster Lace. The other one was light blue with violet eyes. It's name was Pinwheel Rock.
She would also write the same date on her pictures. February 2, 2014. Less than a year away from now. Whatever happened on that day could not be if Lydianna was scared of it. Susie, Elliot, and the rest of their families were prepared for Lydianna to do anything, Go stark-raving mad, or back to normal. She had never kept a character going for this long, but there's a first for everything.
Including getting a letter from an Alien.