Disclaimer: *sobs* I didn't make up this whole story on my own. *Sobs again* I had to use the mind of Anne Bishop and her four books about this world.

Claimant: I did make up some of the characters, and if you wish to use them without permission, then *smiles evilly* I'll be glad to get my hands on your money since at this moment I don't have any at all.



Chapter 1

My name is Chandra. I don't know where or how I got it. My friends call me Rae or at least they would if I had any, and I'm also an orphan. At least I think I am since I don't know who my parents are. I know their first names and only that because I asked my nursed before she died. She told me that their names where Cassandra and Saetan. I don't know if they are living or not, and since I have grown up I stopped caring.

To survive when my nurse died I became an assassin. I studied the types of fighting from every realm. Yes, even the Eyrien type of fighting. I was lucky with that one though. You see I found an old man who was ill and nursed him back to health. What can I say it was one of my good days. Anyway he was a combat trainer for one of the Eyrien camps, so I made him teach me the Eyrien way of fighting. I learned quickly after all I may need it someday. And even if all of my training fails me one day I'm still strong since my birth jewel is the gray and since I made the offering I have six uncut black jewels. I learned my magic skills well too. And when I reached my maturity I found out that I'm a Healer/Priestess/Black widow combination. It hurt the day my snake tooth came out! Immediately after it showed up though I went to get trained in how to be a black widow. Thank the Darkness that my snake tooth came in before the black widows were discredited. I've never killed with my snake tooth, probably because I never needed to. I could always rely on my other skills first.

When that bitch Dorothea showed up I quickly learned how to suppress my strength and my combination of skills, so no one would be able to tell how strong I am. After all I didn't want a whole bunch of would be assassins coming after me. But even then when she came into power I already had all of the skills I would ever need to survive. I still train daily even though I no longer need to be an assassin. I quit after a couple of hundred years when I had amassed enough money to live comfortably on for the rest of my life. Occasionally I still exercise my skills on the tainted Blood that crossed my path and happened to piss me off. They did that a lot especially those from Hayll's so called hundred families, also known by me as the rich assholes and bitches. The men were easy to kill they always fell for my sweet innocent look. I mean that combined with my porcelain skin, blue black hair, and gold eyes always made them stupid. I am tall and slender too. Not that I'm a stick or anything, I mean I'm curvy and bouncy where I'm suppose to be.

But even though there are still tainted Blood who escaped that blast of power a couple of years ago it was getting boringly easy to hunt them down. So I'm going to leave Terreille and go to Kaeleer. I hope to see those fabled kindred that are said to reside there. After all it will be something new that I have never done before. And there is nothing here for me, so why stay?