Prologue (Backstory)

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 Eira Crystal was someone who was born with the gift of winter. The very nature of the cold flowed through her veins. She was isolated because of the fact that she controlled the element and it was peculiar. She was seen as a witch and her parents sent her away because the people wanted to kill her. She ended up living in the snowy mountains at the age of 8 and grew there. She lived off of animals she hunted and plants. She learned to hunt by observing the various hunters that would come up to the mountains sometimes.

The age of fifteen she stumbled across an injured hunter, she took care of him and he taught her how to read, write and speak properly. He taught her all about the human world and she was delighted with his company. But the time came when he had to go.... And so he left. Months later, he came back but saw Eira using her powers by mistake, he now knew her secret. The man became consumed with greed, the thought of how much he'd earn from selling someone with powers. He went back to town and informed major businesses dealing with human improvement and mutant humans about the girl capable of materializing ice from thin air.

The news caused an uproar and many wealthy tycoons gathered people to capture her and bring her back. It was an early morning, two hours before the sun would rise that the group came to ambush her, but what they didn't know, was that Eira never slept, not after the night someone tried to rob her of her parents and her life, she couldn't. The heavy footsteps crunching only the snow alerted her even before they were close enough to her home, after all, she was the cold and the cold was her. She felt any movement that so much as lightly grazed the snow.

Eira jolted up and slipped the hood of her coat over her head. She silently left the cottage and climbed the trees, hiding in their thick leaves and branches. Her vibrant blue brown eyes glowed soberly in the dark as she waited for the men to get to their desired location. Eira's eyes widened in surprise before squinting in anger when she saw the same man leading the group. It dawned on her that she had been betrayed. She allowed him to see her and he betrayed her. Her gaze turned predatory, she felt hurt and angry, she taught she finally made a friend. With a slight blow from her lips, snow started to fall slowly and then it turned to a rageful state, akin to her anger and pain that she felt now. The snow and wind picked up and it turned into a blizzard that forced the approaching men to halt. The breeze whipped around dangerously, threatening the safety of the men as it was becoming strong enough to lift the fully grown men off of their feet.

Eira stood on a branch in the tree she was currently in and told them to retreat, that they would never win in this cold, they were too unprepared. She jumped down and landed gracefully on her feet. She ran to the man she once trusted and whispered her farewells to him before disappearing into the night.

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