I’ve always wondered, what I am to this world? A shadow of the past? A link to the future? Here am I, the immortal who is damned by the gods for tasting something just for them. For tasting the forbidden fruit of knowledge. I am Eve, the first woman. After I have fallen from Eden, with Adam, my mortal husband, the gods have cursed me with the immortal life. I am to live through life and death, through pain and suffering....

The snow continuously falls as I walk through the forest. True, it is dark, but I’ve always loved the darkness. The silence that surrounds it, the mystery it gives. Silently I tread through the well beaten path, indulging myself to the momentary peace it gives. I’ve always, always, walked through this path to go to a mystical lake known only to me. A lake that never freezes, a lake filled with beauty. As I reached its ban...