Prologue

"It's coming, Eric!" Saraphine's screamed awoken me from my slumber.

"Anna!" I quickly shook her awake beside me. "Anna, the babies coming!"

Anna pitched up and fully acknowledged the situation due to Saraphine's constant screaming. We both got out of our bed and ran to the other room. We bursted into the room to see her trying to sit up on her bed in the dark.

"It hurts. . . it hurts so much! I can't take it!" Saraphine cried. I grabbed the luminosity diamonds and placed them around the room for light. Anna laid Saraphine down on her back with a few cushions beneath her head. She lifted her knees up and spread her legs.

"It's okay, Sara. Just try to breath as normal as you can." Anna coached her before she started screaming again. I ran and held her hand but seems like she was doing all of the grasping. Letting her clamp on to me was a bad idea because now I'm in pain as well. "I can see the head! Sara, I need you to push!" Anna said. She gripped on to me even tighter and started screaming. "Almost there! One more push!"

"I can't! It hurts too much!" Saraphine cried, in the most pain I've ever seen her endure in my life.

"The only way that pain is going to go away is if you have this baby right now!" Anna pushed her.

"Come one, Saraphine! Just once more." I tried to be supportive. Her grip suddenly intensify and she started screaming, louder and longer than before. The tiny cries of a strong and firm infant lungs averted my attention. Anna grabbed a hunting knife and cut the cords. She then wrapped it in a blanket and wiped it off. Anna's smile enhanced by the sight of it, while Saraphine's grip on my hand softened.

"It's a boy, Sara." She walked to the side of the bed where I sat, brightened in many ways.

"Annabeth. . .let me see him." Saraphine's faint voice called. Anna rested him in her arms and she smiled while her tears glistened and drained down her eyes. Even through all of that pain, this is the happiest I've ever seen my sister. "My beautiful baby boy." Her voice softened and grew weaker. "My beautiful. . .Seth." She barely whispered before slowly closing her eyes.

"S-Sara?!" She wasn't respondent. "Anna we have to help her somehow. She can't just die!" I shouted, looking back her with longing eyes.

"There's nothing we can do. No one's ever survived. She knew this would happen." Anna looked at me with a tear filled eyes while holding my hand. I looked back at Saraphine who was silent, sound and motionless. Her breathing had fainted completely.

"S-She's gone." I shook my head while looking at her skeletal face and how thin she had become in a matter of moments. The child's voice lifted as he started crying nonstop. I took him up from Saraphine's arms and looked at him with softened eyes. That's when I saw it, the tips of his tiny strands of black hair turn to red. Rage and fear came over me at once and I started marching to the outside of our home.

"Eric! Eric where are you going with him?!" Anna called while I walked outside and lit a fire in the cold winter snow. "Eric. . ." Her voice appeared from behind while I stared into the fire as I held the boy.

"He killed Saraphine, Anna! That's not all. I was hoping that he would've been born a normal human like his mother and the rest of us, but he's not. He's a Caster, and not just any Caster. He's a Saki Caster in the process of becoming a True-Caster already! He's the reason she's dead and he'll be the reason we'll all die!" I lifted him over the fire.

"If you hurt him, I will never forgive you, Eric. I will leave you here in this forest to grieve alone and I will never come back!" She tried to talk me out of it. I looked back at her quickly.

"This boy is the result of a Human and Caster intermingle. Once the council finds out his true blood, no. . .Even once they see he's a Potential-Caster, we'll all be killed. A Human cannot take care of a Caster and a Caster cannot take care of a human. We must remain divided always, that is the law. That's how it's always been and that's how it always will be. This boy must die!" I turned around in the cold winter air to rest him in the fire.

"Eric! He's the only blood your sister's ever had! Killing him would be the same as killing her. Don't do this!" He started crying.

 I looked into his barely opened eyes, the emerald eyes that are so much like Saraphine's. I fell back into the snow in tears while I hugged him.

"I can't do it. I can't kill you, Seth!" I cried, keeping him warm.