Impossible to Love (Book 1 of The Starlite Heart)

Prologue

There once lived a magnificent ruler

With the whole world as her empire.

The empress on envisaging her final hour,

Called her three children to her.

"My time has come, and I must leave," said she.

"When I'm gone, this world will be your responsibility."

The three heirs looked at her holding their breath,

Waiting in anticipation, the final decision before her death.

She continued, "Since I won't favour one of you above the others,

I have decided to divide my realm into three independent spheres.

Tell me my children, what is the greatest power of all?"

"Love," all three of them replied without a moment's stall.

The empress was much pleased with the reply

And said that one wish to each of them she would supply.

The eldest of them was a girl; Nymphadora was her name.

She wished for the power to seduce each and every man.

"Very well," said the mother.

"Like a man falls in the water

Every man will fall in love with you

And after he makes love to you,

He will draw his last breath

Like he drowned in the ocean's depth.

The siblings were in shock.

The mother spoke,

"Go into the ocean, you won't drown.

I give you the water crown."

The empress gave her the sphere of water,

And nymph was the name given to her daughter.

The middle child was a boy named Star.

He got so terrified by his sister's power

That he asked to be very very far.

He said, "I don't want to fall in love, ever."

"Very well," the empreaa said as she had before.

"You will not feel love, neither the pang nor the pleasure.

You will be free as the wind," said the empress.

Before he could smile she gave the curse.