The Girl with Red Eyes - Prologue

All alone in the cold night, the wind blowing above her head, Abelena - last name unknown - stepped into the darkness.
Her body shivered with fright.
They’d kicked her out. They’d taken away all she knew.
And now she was alone - unsure where to go.
She was raised with the notion that her in herself was a sin. Her red eyes glowed so unnaturally that it was deemed “too eerie to be human”. Her black locks, however, had not a thing wrong with them.
She was hoping all that was untrue. That she was not a sin - that she couldn’t be. She tried hard to convince herself of this.
18 years. 18 years she’d been in that orphanage, dropped there on the day of her birth. Though, nobody would tell her by whom.
And now, on the night of her 18th birthday, she was alone.
Who would help her now? Who would show her the way?
These were the times where Abelena yearned so deeply to see her real mother - whoever she might be.
Abelena was nothing special, and nothing short of what kids would call a “freak”. Her life was a complicated jumble.
She cried into the night, for the mother somewhere out there with red eyes - whom she’d never know.