Prologue
My name is Orianna NicEssus. I was born in the city of Angels, Los Angeles. Shortly after I was born my mother, Meredith NicEssus, took me to back to the Unseelie court. Apparently she had made a deal with Queen Andais about my birth. My mother and her cousin, Cel, were in a race to produce an heir. Whomsoever produced an heir would have Queen Andais’ throne.
Cel went mad after being put into a room and being covered in Branwyn’s Tears. Branwyn’s Tears are a powerful aphrodisiac. Just one drop and you are consumed by the urge for physical and sexual contact. He stayed chained in the dark room without being able to relieve his need. In a mad attempt to kill my mother, he was taken and killed.
Even if my mother hadn’t produced an heir she would have gotten the throne. He had tried to attack her while she had me in her arms. My mother, being mortal had only her guards to protect her. To this day Seki swears that another power helped save Meredith and myself. A power other than her guard’s. Mine.
My birth was a strange one, or so I am told. My parents say that I was conceived in the fight with the Nameless. The Nameless was a formless magical being that was the ultimate power. It could destroy the world in just a few hours. The first time the Nameless was unleashed the Seelie and the Unseelie court fought together to contain it. Everyone who was there to fight the Nameless lost some of the powers they used to contain it.
The last fight with the Nameless my mother killed it. All the powers that the Nameless had taken went back into mother’s guards. The excess energy, having nowhere else to go, flew into my mother. It was then that my mother became immortal and pregnant. Her pregnancy progressed at an unusual rate. Within five months I was born and already starting to grow.
By the time we arrived at the court I had learned how to walk and beginning to speak. Andais respectfully stepped down, my mother took the throne and I continued growing quickly. When I reached my first birthday I looked eight years old. By the time I reached the look of a fifteen year old my aging slowed.
A conflict began between my mother’s guards as to who was my father. The Nameless had taken pieces of all of the men my mother had slept with and combined them in me. They are all a part of me. That is why I took my grandfather’s name as my last. I couldn’t take all of my father’s names so I decided on NicEssus.
When I was twelve I still looked like a teenager. At that time I had a vision of the Goddess. She told me that I was destined for more than just a throne-- that I was created to bring balance and peace, but to whom she did not say. She told me that I had to leave. The dream persisted for years after. By the time I looked about twenty I left.
As my mother had learned years before I was born, you have to be quiet when you’re running. See, Mum wasn’t always the Queen of the Unseelie court. Once she was hiding, like me, from Queen Andais. I guess you could say it runs in the family. However, her reasons were much more different than mine. Her reasons weren’t as dangerous.
So now I run. I run to prevent conflict and to possibly save my life. In this case Goddess only knows what’s going to happen.
Copyrights: This is a fan fiction. All original characters from Laurell K. Hamilton's Fae series are hers and hers alone (too many to count sorry) this includes the Anita Blake series. All characters that weren't in her original series are MINE and I will kick any one's ass that steals them.