"This is Calla, the newest member of the family" Illeya announced to a group of at least 30 men and women, "she is my sister, and we will make her feel at home here."

I felt like a bug under a microscope. Unfamiliar faces of men and women just stared at me and I felt like crying.

"Isn't that Velkovs girl?" A woman called out, she had bright blue hair, and looked to be in her early twenties.

There were immediate whispers that swarmed the room at the ...