Hi. My name is Sophie Foster, and I'm almost 16 years old. I think . . . You see, I'm an elf. And elves don't really pay attention to age that much, since technically they have unlimited lifespans. At least, no elf has yet died of old age, so who knows?

   I go to Foxfire Academy, which is a school for elves. Yes, I know the school is named after a fungus, but it's actually an amazing school. I mean, it has to be, since the only other school is Exillium . . . and trust me, that is not a school elves hold in high esteem like Foxfire, even though it was recently updated.

   I guess I should also tell you that I'm kind of famous. First of all, I'm the only elf ever to have brown eyes. People call me a freak sometimes because of this. However, I've gotten used to it, and it doesn't bother me that much anymore.

   Next, I was born in the Forbidden Cities and lived with the humans for the first twelve years of my life. It was kind of hard, but those days are behind me now.

   Elves have these things called abilities, which means they have some sort of power. At least, most elves do; some elves never manifest an ability, and they're seen as lesser, somehow - but that never stops them from doing great things. Take my best friend Dex's father, Kesler, for example. He never manifested, but he runs a really fun shop called Slurps 'n' Burps that sells all kinds of elixirs. (An elixir is basically elf medicine.) It's a funky shop, with curved walls and colorful shelves. He says he built it for the "stuffy nobles."

   Anyway, I actually have five abilities. Some elves have two, but that's uncommon, and three is very rare, but I have five. That's basically unheard of in the elvin world. My abilities are: Telepath (I can read minds and transmit mental messages), Teleporter (I basically open a vortex in the sky with my mind and jump into it, and it teleports me wherever I need to go), Inflictor (I can inflict feelings on people, like pain, happiness, or sadness), Enhancer (I can enhance other people's abilities just by touching them), and Polyglot (I can translate any language I hear in a split second, without thinking. The Enlightened language may have been my native language, but I could translate French into Ogre if need be). So that adds to my fame.

   I'm also basically known as a troublemaker. Some people say, "Pick your battles," but I pick all of them. At least, it seems that way.

   So that's pretty much all you need to know about me. Anything else you'll pick up along the way.