Chapter 3

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-You mean that by saying you come from Greece you meant the Ancient Greece?- I nodded -Nice time that was... I still remember perfectly...- I said with nostalgia. I still remembered clearly the sun o my skin or my father's laugh while he chased after me in the fields. As well as the wind in my hair when I ran through the ears ready to be picked. The smell of just bloomed flowers or the whispers of the woods in rainy days. I shook myself from my daze going back talking some moments later -So many years have gone by that that it seems almost impossible for me to be here.- I laughed to myself before looking back at Carlisle who asked -Do you remember how you were changed?- I swallowed in vain before answering -It's hard to answer that question...- before I could start talking I heard Edward stiffen and take a great intake of useless breath. Everybody turned to look at him that was still staring at me with eyes wide as plates. I knew he could read my mind and that he had probably seen my memories already.

-To answer that question I might have to tell you about my human life. I hope that's okay with you?- I didn't even give them time to answer before I started talking again.

-I lived in a small town in Greece, with my father. My mother had died giving bith to me Anf even without her precence in my life I had no problem growing up. My dad was my idle. i still remember of when he taught me how to behave in a field or how to fish in the river. Everything was going fine. That was untill I started to hang out with the other children in the village. They asked questions, lots of them. Question I had no answer to. "Why are your hair so long?""Why are they white? No one has white hair, only the elderly!""Your skin is so pale. You're not like us!". At first I gave no thought to what they had to say. I knew I was that way from the day I was born. My father always said to me that I was a gift of the Gods and that he had given me this name for that reason.

Things started to change after the day of my twelfth birthday, the legal age of maturity. People began to visit us just to see me or to hear the sound of my voice. I knew something strange was going on, nobody had ever treated me with such kindness and deference. My father told me to stay in the house without letting them see me, to avoid that someone could mean harm to me. But I didn't understand his worry. They had finally understood I wasn't strange or evil, so why hide? Why could I not go along what was finally happening to me? Everytime I met someone on the road they would be inchanted with my presence or when my skin would shine in the sun. These new characteristics that continued to appear in the course of the years didn't do anything but attract people; not only in my village but also from the others. Things started to get out of hand and I couldn't understand why.

When I was fifteen I made a curious encounter. I was in the woods my favourite place in the world, I saw someone in the distance. It was a boy that ran in the trees. He seemed to barely touch the ground. I immediatly thought I had just imagined him, because the next moment he wasn't there anymore... I tried to chase after him and, in my rush I hadn't realised I had gone so far. in the blink of an eye I was somewhere in the woods i had never reached before. I was lost, I didn't know where I was or how to go back home. Suddenly I saw him again. A lot closer that before. In a second he was in front of me. He had a relaxed smile on his face and his eyes were almost identical to mine, they wereonly a few shades darker. I hadn't felt any kind of attractin to someone before that moment. It was just a second but I'll never forget it.

His name was Milos and talking to him I found out his story was similar to mine, he had started to feel strange and synthoms like mine had begun to appear.

We began to meet frequently, always in the woods where no one could see us and a strong bond formed between the two of us. Nobody in my village knew where I went in the afternoon but wanderd what I did all that time alone in the woods. I discovered there were others like me in the world. Milos had travelled in many countries, being a couple of years older than me, and found someone in Italy and France. In that moment I decided I would find them to discover as much as possible about what I was. I didn't see myself as the strange girl, anymore. I was a lot more now, I was special.

Slowly I began to run as fast as Milos, as well as jumping high in the sky and seeing in the dark.

We were constantly in touch with nature, which offered us her fruits and elements. Thanks to these capacities we couls travel fast from nation to nation for our researches on the field.

We discovered there were really few exemplars of what we started to call "our kind".

In the next months we started to study a way to keep it alive. Also because no one of us was attraced to the other men and wemen we decided we would form couples in our group so that there would have been generational change and trasmission of genes.

At the time we thought our capacities were gifts from up above given to us to diffuse the Gods' benevolence to the men. We thought we were chosen to purify the souls of humanity.

For this reason some of us, who had an incredible strength began to exterminate villages in the name of the good we were moralizing. With time they started to make men their slaves and to sleep with their women. From that came a ner generation of halfblood beings.

They had human characteristics but also special powers like ours. The situation got out of end really quickly... More and more chosen ones began to couple with humans and our genetic heritage slowly began to lose itself and be modified. The newborns were affected by strange allergies and felt the need to drink blood to mantain their strength. It was too late to stop the evolution. In some years also the humans began to understand we were a threat to their lives and started to chase after us, hunting us, hunting the Abnormals, as we were called.

We were forced to hide but, even if we tried to escape week by week; month by month, year by year, most of us were sterminated.

They burned villages and towns, wherever they thought we could have found help. I lost all my friends, all those people we were able to find to try to survive as a new kind of beings. I lost my villages, my house, my father... Everything. But I had to move on, I had to escape and hide.

Then something strange happened. I had just awaken, like every other day, I would have ran in the woods to avoid being located but a great pain in my chest had me on my knees and the breath stopped in my throat. My lungs were on fire; my own body didn't respond to my commands. I remember that before falling unconscious I thouth that would be the end of my suffering, I wouldn't have to run or hide, anymore.

But then I woke up again.

Everything seemed the same but different at the same time. I could hear noices from great distance and smell odors I wouldn't have noticed before. It felt like being born again. At firsti I thought it was the reincarnation everyone talked about, but then, looking in the water, I noticed I was the same as ever. From that moment nothing changed.-

The silence in the room was deafening. No one dared to emit a sound.

I started to study their expressions, which were mostly of surprise. I was glad of not seeing the previous look of suspect in their eyes. It took Carlisle some minutes to shake himself out of the trance he seemed to be in. I could not blame him, afterall it could seem impossible to someone like him and his family who had always believed vampires could only e considered such if they were bitten by one. -You mean that you were born this way?- I nodded -in the years after my total change I spent a lot of time to try to find a reason why I was this way, also with the help of a great scientist friend of mine. The only reason we were able to form that we were the result of a particoular combination of genes that were really rare at the time that now is probably exstint after the persecutions. There were traces of venom in my system already the day of my birth, it modified the colour of my hair and eyes; in the next years it spread throughout my body untill it began to show evident proof of its presence, with my gifts, and then reached my heart at the age of physical maturity, about twenty years old. Then the change was complete, it killed my huan body and began to act at its full potential.-

Carlisle then -You underwent special exams to reach this conclusion?- I grimaced -I was ready to do everything to find something out. So I decided to have a cerebral and epithelial sample that would regrow thanks to the venom.- his eyes shined at my words -Would you mind if I saw what you found out?- I shook my head -No problem. I have the result in a luggage I always take with me in my travels. Wouldn't want anyone bad read them, would we?- I didn't even give him the chance to speak a word that I ran out of the house to go pick my luggage I had left on a tree branch and came back in less then two seconds -Here you are..- my documents were conserved in a big leather bag. It was so heavy that no man could have even take it off the ground. It was full of papers and files about my research.

I opened my bag, the sound of the zipper was the only thing that resounded in the room. Once the bag was opened I took out all the files and put them all on the table. Carlisle began immediatly to search through them reading each line with growing interest.

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