Mystics: The Beginning
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I was a regular baby when I was born, before any of my… abnormalities started to show up. They stayed at bay until I was about one-year-old. This was when the controversy began.
Maybe first I should back up and tell you a little about myself. My name is Ksena Isis Rulan. I personally think I was adopted or picked up or… something. I look nothing like my parents, a fact which is due to my abnormalities.
I started school a year early, due to good grades in preschool. I grew tall and slender, totally unlike my parents, who are both shorter than me by at least two inches and I’m only fourteen. Very young I became best friends with Emilie (a.k.a. Boa), we have been friends for so long that it seems like we’ve been friends forever.
Why ‘Boa’ you ask? Once in third grade we went to a zoo. She was the first one to ask: “Teacher, what’s that big snake on the other side of the glass called?” And our teacher replied: “That’s an Anaconda; it’s a Boa Constrictor, which means that it squeezes its food to death instead of biting and injecting it with poison.”
Then Emily walked up to the glass and said: “A Boa Constrictor? Hmm… I’ll name you Boa.” She has always had a weird connection with snakes ever since ‘Boa’ the Anaconda, which I’m obligated to tell you that an Anaconda is a Python, not a Boa Constrictor. She owns many various snakes now. Plus, she milks them for venom for the anti-venom that she makes.
Her nickname for me is ‘Ears’. Now I’ll tell you why. I have pointy ears. Why? No honest idea. I figure I’m some sort of science experiment gone awry. Good theory in my opinion. I’m tall and lanky, but muscular, totally unlike my parents, who are short. I’m currently five foot eight inches tall. They’re both under five feet six inches tall. Yikes.
Or maybe I’m one of those babies where they injected genetic crap into me while I was in the womb. My mom was pregnant with me and they wanted a tall, lanky, but still muscular, intelligent daughter (ooh, this is getting good). Only, something went wrong and my ears were transformed into the things I have today. Yep, that’s what happened to me.
Now I live in a calm suburb outside of
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About the Book
Ksena is a not so ordinary girl trying to live an ordinary life. Her uniqueness has always been a mystery to her. But now, someone is after her and her friends and the only way that she can survive is if she finds out who, and what, she really is.
About the Author
Corinne Simonti was originally born in 1990 in Augusta, Georgia. With a natural passion for reading—fantasy in particular—she first began writing poems at eleven and then progressed to stories two years later, when she wrote Mystics: The Beginning. Not one to believe a story ends when the book does, she then wrote a sequel and is in the process of writing a third, though she admits to having the fourth and fifth planned out in her head. When she was seven, she moved to Charlevoix, Michigan, where she lived until August of 2006. Now she lives in Evans, Georgia, close to where she used to live as a child.