A/N: I know it's really short. That's just because it's the prologue. The other chapters will be longer. Please R&R. This is the first fanfic I've written so I hope you like it.
I was just an ordinary girl. Well, maybe not ordinary, but who is? Let's just say that there wasn't anything about me that set me apart from everyone else. I went to school, hung out with my friends, received average grades, and occasionally fought with my parents.
This all changed on my eighteenth birthday (December 19, 2004). It started out as a normal day. I wasn't having my part that day but on the next day because it was Friday and me and my friends had school. I had convinced my mom to let me stay home from school since it was my birthday and so I could clean the house up for the party.
After working for a few hours I decided that I deserved a break. It was almost twelve o'clock then. I went upstairs to my room to read for a little while. Reading was, and always will be, my favorite thing to do. Actually I had even more reason to love books later then I did at that moment but I'll get to that part later.
I decided since I had no new books (I was hoping to get some for my birthday) I would read one of my favorites, Trickster's Choice by, Tamora Pierce (my favorite author), which I had read a few times before but still found interesting.
It's about a young girl named Aly who is the daughter of Alanna the Lioness, the King's Champion and George Cooper, the King's spymaster and ex-King of Thieves. She gets kidnapped by raiders and made a slave. Then she makes a wager with the trickster god, Kyprioth, to protect a young woman that he wishes to soon become queen and also to protect her siblings. Along the way she meets many interesting characters such as the fierce cook, Chenaol; the crow turned man who wishes to be Aly's mate, Nawat; and the grumpy mage, Ochobu.
But the book isn't important. Actually it is but I only find that out later. I started reading the book which begins with Aly coming home from the castle and talking to her father in his study.
Once I began reading I became very sleepy and my eyelids dropped. It was extremely odd because before that I had been wide awake. I tried not to fall asleep but it was no use; before I had read more than a page I was out cold.
That's when the dream that changed my life came. Or at least, I thought it was a dream. It turned out to be the realest thing that had ever happened to me.