When Suki was born, it wasn't monumental.

She was born to a middle-class family, close to the sea. Her family was medium in size; her parents, her two older sisters, and herself.

She was born on a spring day, when the sky was overcast. She opened her eyes and looked into the eyes of her mother, her sisters, and later, her father.

Everything about Suki suggested mediocrity. Her name, her looks, the day, time, and year she was born, the fact that she was the last of three...all things suggested that she would be nothing more than the healer's daughter, born and raised in the trade, and that she would stay in the small town she was born, get married to a nice village boy, have some kids, and pass away an old crone.

No one in their wildest dreams ever thought that she would become what she became.

That is, no one, except Suki herself.