All humans have their own secrets. secrets that can occasionally be too difficult to divulge. These secrets, however, are what bind a person to their destiny-a destiny that has already been predetermined for them without their knowledge.
But what if fate could be altered? What if you were able to compose your own? Is it possible for such an event to occur?
I have been around for over three hundred years. Furthermore, no being had been able to alter their destiny during those years. Maybe it is a lovely curse from which one cannot break free. Or perhaps it is a perilous dream that haunts the living.
One girl in particular stood out because she altered not just her future but also mine. But perhaps all she did was already part of her fate. Perhaps it is true what they say about the ink masters having favorites.
How the old lad, Cyrus, would laugh if he read this!
I remember everything that happened that year, every detail that, unfortunately, did not escape my eyes.
I was only a hundred years old when I met her. But prior to our first meeting, I had already seen her in my dreams. I could see the darkness that surrounded her, begging her to let it in. Her Ill-fated destiny that was just as cruel as death.
But death would never be the end of her story. Because among the ink masters that controlled her fate, sat a good man named Tolle. He was a man that desperately tried to fix her fate.
But no matter what he did, the second ink master, Nolle, would never let her story end well.
So Tolle created Isaac, a character that would never die. A character that would guide Saliah in every single world she lived in; past, present, alternate universe and so many more little worlds that existed. Isaac was created for Saliah, to protect her from the shrewdness of the second ink master.
But one thing would never change, fate...could never be changed.
I, unbeknownst to Saliah, was created to exist alongside her. But meeting her in the modern world was impossible. I could never successfully cross over to the modern world and I absolutely could not let her know of all these truths, truths that could undoubtedly kill her. But the ink that flowed through her made me see what she saw. Her world, her life.
In the modern world, Saliah was cheerful, funny and kind. But she was also lonely, antisocial and sad.
She lived with her older brother, Zain, who was only five years older than her. Her parents, she believed, died in a car accident. An accident she never forgave herself for.
Her only friend was Kia, a lively girl that made Saliah's life less awful. Kia, just like Saliah, was an eighteen year old university student. The bond between them was absolutely unbreakable.
How did this young child change fate? you might ask...
Why don't you turn the page and find out?
I, Isaac, promise to reveal to you the truth behind the ink. The truth behind the disaster that no resident of Tayama Kingdom got over.
Signed,
Isaac.
"The truth is never the truth unless believed in." -Tolle