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Note: This title is currently on submission and, other than the original short in The Eternal Kiss, not yet available. Every family has its secrets - some dark, some innocuous, some big, some small ... some that are in between. Rebecca MacDonnell's grandmother has kept just such a secret from her granddaughter. Brought up to believe she was just a regular girl who would have a regular life, one can imagine Rebecca's shock when her expectations for her future were drastically altered one night. It's said that when opportunity knocks on your door, you have only one chance to take it. No one said what you're supposed to do when it kicks it. There is a fine line between "opportunity" and "destiny". Both fate and free will play a part in the creation of both. Just because Rebecca is descended from the most prominent line of Ethereal Healers ever known doesn't mean she has to become one herself. Her grandmother worked the whole of Rebecca's life to let the secret of Rebecca's heritage die, but fate intervened - as it tends to do when a destiny is on the verge of being unfulfilled - in the form of a classmate wounded by hellhounds, brought to her by his friend, a vampire. Though her grandmother tried to stress otherwise and make Rebecca understand that, though she might be destined, she still has a choice about whether or not she wants to accept her destiny, Rebecca doesn't feel there's a choice to be made. She's always felt "different", and always wanted to be a doctor. So now she'll train to be a doctor of those that aren't human instead of those that are. Some things that come through the portal in the hidden room at the top of the stairs are frightening, but they still need help, and that's what Rebecca is there for. To help, to Heal, and to provide a safe haven for Ethereal beings in need. Vampires are just the beginning. Werewolves, hellhounds, demons, imps, ghosts, goblins, ghouls - they all need help sometime, and now that the Eastern Enclave is back in business, they have another place to go for that help. For a soon-to-be seventeen-year-old Healer-in-training, that's a lot to handle. Especially on top of her homework. |
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