- Original timeline: Several hundred years before Exedra's eighteenth birthday...
"There we are. Y'see? That wasn't so bad."
A five-year-old Audrina looked down at the salve covering the small burns on her hands.
The flesh still stung a bit. But she didn't want to complain any more than she already had.
"...It's sticky."
Above her, a woman laughed. She was charming and beautiful. Radiant and full of life.
Her smile was too bright for any vampire to possess. It was a miracle she didn't burn herself up whenever she laughed.
Her white hair was short. Her skin was as pale as milk in the moonlight.
Her almond-shaped eyes sparkled with a ruby red light.
Audrina was envious of her mother's eye color. She liked it more than her own.