Lilja

Chapter One: Three Years Before.

The sea breeze seemed to whip and whirl round Lilja leaving her pale skin cold from its icy touch, yet as the wind hollowed over the cliff top it tugged at the white lace dress that covered her slim, slender figure swirling her long red hair through the air behind her.

Lilja could hear the waves below her feet as she stood gazing out upon the horizon, waves that seemed to be crashing with a raging force against the sharp, jagged rocks. It was oddly relaxing and yet terrifying all the same.

Lilja's gaze turned to watch the waves ripple back then rush forward once more to break against the obstetrical within their path, she was lost in her centre of calm and peace, this place of crashing waves and whirling wind was her tranquillity. A calming silence that was only broken by the waves raging force beneath the cliff top were she stood, but her peace was soon shattered by a man's voice bellowing behind her.

Lilja turned slowly watching a black haired man storming towards her from the large mansion house. His right eye was a ghostly white yet his left eye was darkest black, his icy white skin seeming to fluster as he towered over Lilja's slight figure, his voice a never ending bellowing rage with all his lung capacity spitting each word from his mouth which seemed to echo over the sound of the crashing waves, the words seeming to cast Lilja as a failure within the coven.

Her nerves seemed to fill the pit of her stomach, she could not fully hear his words as they seemed to cast more darkness into her heart and as the man seemed to loom up ever closure to Lilja, his voice alone seemed not just commanding but as if it was spitting a venom deeply rooted within his throat. He continued his bellowing rage, making the sea breeze seem ever more icy as it whipped across Lilja's face her eyes fixated all the while on the tall man who now began pacing back and forth before her, never once stopping from his bitter words.

Panic rushed over Lilja, it was all too much. She turned back to face the sea and without a second thought of what may actually happen all she knew was she wanted to be free and with that one thought in her mind, she leapt into the air falling down from the cliff top to her only escape of the waves below.