I felt my body becoming weak and the world around me becoming hazy. Suddenly my whole life flashed before my eyes.

I found myself at the beginning. I was still human. I had a brother, his name was Kevin. When had I allowed myself to forget that? He was younger than me. I watched him grow up and have a family and eventually die in a brawl in a bar in Italy. How did I let myself forget that? What kind of monster did I become?

How could I forget the day that I disappeared from his life? The day, when I was only 26 years old when I was out in the field of our farm in North Carolina. He was only 19, our parents had passed away.

I didn’t even feel or see Henry coming. I just felt his teeth piercing my skin and I could do nothing but lean back against him and pray that he would spare my life. I almost thanked the gods when he released me, but I didn’t get the chance. He lifted my head to his throat and forced his blood into my mouth.

Then as I felt the transformation going through my body, he smirked at me and said, "you’re too beautiful to be lost."

I opened my eyes through my pain. It felt like I was moving. The wind was rushing through my body, there was a strong arm around my waist and a familiar voice saying, "just hang on Tina. Hang on."

My eyes fluttered shut and I went back in time to the beginning of my existence. Regardless of Henry’s insistence, I refused to kill people. I fed purely on animals and never killed a person. It stayed that way for years but then Kevin died.

Even though he had a daughter named Mariah and a son named Alex, I felt like I had no one. He was the last person who knew Tina Kennard. There was no longer a connection to the human world.

I wandered aimlessly around Europe and one day I found Dana. Lara used to make her kill and she was just a lost soul like me, begging for help. So I saved her. Lara was the first person I ever killed.