Chapter 1:

Taeliwren groaned as she slowly opened her violet eyes. She looked up to see grey clouds overhead and she narrowed her eyes in confusion. She slowly sat up, her hands covered in mud and wet leaves. She looked around to find herself in a forest, surrounded by large trees covered in moss. She slowly stood, feeling her sword whack against the back of her knee in its scabbard.

She was alone surprisingly for in Toriziana she had been with her adoptive siblings and the queen. There was no one else there at least . . . she did not think there was anyone else there. She approached the nearest tree and began climbing up, a remarkable grip on the moss-covered bark.

When Taeliwren reached a relatively high branch, she looked out to see a forest one way and a tongue the other. The sky was completely covered with grey clouds, as far as the eye could see. She knew where she was now . . . information from a long time ago resounding through her head. . .

“Twilight. . .” she whispered before she scrambled back down to the forest floor. She looked around again and quickly discerned which way the town was and she ran, holding her sword in her hand. When she reached the town’s edge, she noticed a tall boy, about seventeen or eighteen years old with bronze coloured hair and a girl about the same age but shorter with long brown hair.

“You have got to be kidding . . .” Taeliwren whispered to herself before she looked back into the forest and hid her sword in a small hollow beneath a tree. She also hid her scabbard, dagger, bow, quiver and her tunic, wearing just a simple shirt she knew wouldn’t make her seem weird. She tried to change the colour of her eyes but she knew she couldn’t so instead she tied her hair back into a pony-tail before she approached the two teenagers.

When the bronze-haired boy noticed her, Taeliwren felt goose-bumps rise on her arms, seeing the golden eyes survey her with slightly confusion. She bit her lip slightly as she neared them and she looked up at the boy and smiled.