Prologue
My name is Nika Corentin, and I am not like you. From the beginning of time, my kind has lived among humans. In every culture, there are records of us: men and women, with unnatural strength and speed, living in excess of nine hundred years. We've had more names than I care to count....
Although you can always count on yourself to be creative, it takes a special kind of person to draw out great things in you without either of you trying to. Perhaps that's who I was thinking of when I wrote this.