Authors' Notes: Um…, since we are posting this in the Gundam Wing archive, both of us felt it necessary to explain the concepts of the Night World as we see them… or at least as we intend to use them. Any one sho happens to be reading these novels currently should be advised: SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS AUTHORS' NOTE
1) And I quote : "The Night World isn't a place" It is an underground society/world government which is ruled by the elders of four races other than humans. These are the witches, lamia (or born/family vampires), made vampires, and the shapeshifters. The Night World counsel has set forth many laws that are meant to protect the secrecy of the organization. Among these are proscriptions against telling humans of the Night World, and falling in love with humans ( as if they could really control that). Anyway, the penalty for breaking these rules is a rather gruesome death.
2) At the time when we join our story, the Night World has split more or less into two factions. Circle Daybreak, "the damned Daybreakers" who want "to teach all races how to live in peace and harmony." They're really not as nice as they sound. The Daybreakers are led by Thierry Descoudres, the first made vampire, and his soulmate (I'll get into that later), Lady Hannah Snow, who is incidentally, human. The Night World counsel was led until recently by Hunter Redfern, though no clear leadership has risen since his death at the hands of the second Wild Power. About that, The Wild Powers are four young people prophesied to avert the end of the world. Three of the four have joined Circle Daybreak, the fourth is yet to be found. Just previous to the last Winter Solstice, the Witches left the Night World in reaction to the murder of their oldest and most revered leader Edgith Harmen, the Crone of all Witches. Leadership of the Witches then fell to Mother Cybelle and the Maiden, Aradia.
3) The Soulmate Principle is that every person has just one other person that they are destined to be with. Umm.. not much to say about this except that it is a force that is very hard to ignore, if not impossible to, and one that draws the two individuals towards each other with a ruthlessness that is often scary. While sometimes the first several meetings are characterized by sparks, pink hazes or other dramatic side effects, this is not always the case and the bond is often only signified by an unusual awareness of the other persons' mental and emotional state, and extreme attraction.
I hope for now that that is all we need to impart upon you. If you have any questions feel free to send them in a review. We will answer them in the next chapter if we can.
The Prologue should be up by the end of tonight, and hopefully chapter one will be up by tomorrow afternoon.
Thanks for reading, please review and enjoy.
Ja ne.
Jes and Besa.