PROLOGUE

PROLOGUE

“HI everyone! I am Altheina Carleins, 16 years of age from Liverpool. Please treat me well.”

I can still remember those exact greetings I uttered during the first day of Senior High School.

Yes, I am Altheina Carleins, or you can just call me Eina to shorten the name. I could still remember that very first day, September 5th 2013 at the Liverpool High School, School of Literature. Ever since that first day of being in senior high, nothing magnificent really happened to me. I just enjoyed my life being with my friends, hanging out and partying until we were out of energy, and non-stop talking about the History and Literature of the whole world which makes me insane. Imagine, we were talking about myths and legends, for all my life my great grandmother has told me unending stories of those out of this world myths and legends. But, I have never actually believed any of it. I immediately fell asleep once she started talking about them, not my intention though because they served as my bedtime lullabies.

They are odd, mind-boggling, inconceivable stories but what can I do. I have never heard any of it since she died when I was 12. Well like what I’ve said, my first year became smooth as jelly.

It’s been 10 years since the course of my life turned upside down. And we are now in the new world of 2023. I’m currently standing on the rooftop of Carleins Fashion Mist building breathing some fresh air and watching the twinkling stars that brightens the night.

Now, let me begin this story by introducing you to the world where I grew up. This world is called Earth. All of you I presume are Earthlings except for those who are not. So I don’t really have to tell you thoroughly what Earth looks like. Earth is the only part of the universe where there is life, from Men to different species of animals, being surrounded by great bodies of water and divided into different continents.

Well, you can never say that this world has once experienced peace and unity because this world is full of evils and infinite crimes. Man, even though not really living together at peace, at least they do talk, communicate and say Hi when seeing or bumping into each other. That would be a very nice start and there is equality, only in some places of course. You can never expect that there is grandiosity of equality because that word is not in the vocabulary of human beings. But what I love about this world, though with all the discrimination and evils, Man can still laugh, go with the flow and defeat the darkness in their way within themselves.

I lived with my father, Emmanuel Carleins, though not evident with his looks, he’s the owner of one of the leading fashion designing companies, not only in the United Kingdom, but in the whole Earth. And I, as his one and only daughter, is the heir of Carleins Fashion Mist Company. I always love to go to bookstores in any town, province or country. That’s the life of a bookworm, what can I do right? I always wanted to smell the aroma of coffees especially Latté, the scent of the gardens with different blooming flowers especially Roses and Tulips, and of course, never to forget, the very delicious pastas and pastries of Liverpool. Whoa! I really miss them!

When I went to that world, I barely ate because all the food was eaten raw.

Ah! That world! Memories of the past!

You might be asking now, 'What world?'

So to further continue this story, let me take you back in time, 10 years ago when I picked a very wondrous amulet or in other tongue, a talisman that brought me into a place I have never believed to exist.