As always I do not own the concept of the Night World, or most of what
appears in this story. Kiki and her family are mine. I hope to make this
my only author's note for this story.
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Prologue: Once upon a time
Once upon a time, there was a young woman with rather special gifts that had finally found her Soulmate, the person that she had been created for. She knew that as things stood there was no way they could possibly be together. You see they came from different societies, almost different worlds. But she was willing to give up everything for him as long as they could be together.
But her Soulmate could not understand how he had possibly found his Soulmate in a woman who he thought was so very inferior to him in every way. So he beat her and humiliated her in every way he could to make her leave. But she still stayed even though the rest of the town on looked down on her, and where ashamed that she lived there. For he had never said that he didn't love her, and she was sure that deep down he did.
Then one night people from his society came, and took her from her house and flung her at the feet of another woman. This woman told her that she was worthless, and that her Soulmate would never love her. But the young woman stayed silent. She knew that it wasn't true. She knew that he loved her.had to love her.
The other woman seeing these thoughts on her face struck her. The young woman lay on the ground crying from the pain. The rest of the people, the ones that had taken her from her house, laughed at her and shouted suggestions of what the other woman should do to her before she killed the.vermin.
Vermin.that word stuck in the young woman's head. It was then that she turned and noticed that her Soulmate had finally appeared. It was the look in his eyes that caused her now to lose all hope. The look in his eyes called her vermin.
The other woman laughed and struck her again and again. The last thing that the young woman saw before she passed out was the other woman kissing he Soulmate. He had never loved her.
She woke up on the side of the road leading out of town. Crying she stood up and slowly stumbled up the road, away from the man that had betrayed her in the worst way possible. But she hadn't gone too far when an old woman standing by a tree called to her. The woman stopped and looked at her in confusion. This old woman was thought by the townspeople to be a witch, but didn't the townspeople also call her a witch?
But the old woman called out to her again, and she stayed and listened to what the woman had to say. The old woman told her, that one day the society that now scorned her, and thought her vermin, would need her descendants or they would be destroyed. Those descendants would also be soulmated to people in the society.
The young woman in a rage cursed her own descendants. That they would never help the society until their soulmates were willing to give up everything for them, as she had been willing to give up everything for her soulmate. Let the society be destroyed so that it, and those in it, could suffer as she had.
This is a story that has been passed down through my family for centuries. My Grandmother used to tell me this story, as I will tell this story to my children.
When I was little I used to feel so very sorry for the poor woman, and asked my Grandmother happened to her and her soulmate. She merely told me that the woman met a nice young man and got married. They had several kids, but the young woman was never completely happy again. As to her soulmate.well she never answered me.
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Prologue: Once upon a time
Once upon a time, there was a young woman with rather special gifts that had finally found her Soulmate, the person that she had been created for. She knew that as things stood there was no way they could possibly be together. You see they came from different societies, almost different worlds. But she was willing to give up everything for him as long as they could be together.
But her Soulmate could not understand how he had possibly found his Soulmate in a woman who he thought was so very inferior to him in every way. So he beat her and humiliated her in every way he could to make her leave. But she still stayed even though the rest of the town on looked down on her, and where ashamed that she lived there. For he had never said that he didn't love her, and she was sure that deep down he did.
Then one night people from his society came, and took her from her house and flung her at the feet of another woman. This woman told her that she was worthless, and that her Soulmate would never love her. But the young woman stayed silent. She knew that it wasn't true. She knew that he loved her.had to love her.
The other woman seeing these thoughts on her face struck her. The young woman lay on the ground crying from the pain. The rest of the people, the ones that had taken her from her house, laughed at her and shouted suggestions of what the other woman should do to her before she killed the.vermin.
Vermin.that word stuck in the young woman's head. It was then that she turned and noticed that her Soulmate had finally appeared. It was the look in his eyes that caused her now to lose all hope. The look in his eyes called her vermin.
The other woman laughed and struck her again and again. The last thing that the young woman saw before she passed out was the other woman kissing he Soulmate. He had never loved her.
She woke up on the side of the road leading out of town. Crying she stood up and slowly stumbled up the road, away from the man that had betrayed her in the worst way possible. But she hadn't gone too far when an old woman standing by a tree called to her. The woman stopped and looked at her in confusion. This old woman was thought by the townspeople to be a witch, but didn't the townspeople also call her a witch?
But the old woman called out to her again, and she stayed and listened to what the woman had to say. The old woman told her, that one day the society that now scorned her, and thought her vermin, would need her descendants or they would be destroyed. Those descendants would also be soulmated to people in the society.
The young woman in a rage cursed her own descendants. That they would never help the society until their soulmates were willing to give up everything for them, as she had been willing to give up everything for her soulmate. Let the society be destroyed so that it, and those in it, could suffer as she had.
This is a story that has been passed down through my family for centuries. My Grandmother used to tell me this story, as I will tell this story to my children.
When I was little I used to feel so very sorry for the poor woman, and asked my Grandmother happened to her and her soulmate. She merely told me that the woman met a nice young man and got married. They had several kids, but the young woman was never completely happy again. As to her soulmate.well she never answered me.