I Should Have Killed You: I

- 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.