I don’t know how to do this. From what I can recall, I’ve had five lifetimes, including this one. There are four people who have been constants throughout all of those lifetimes. The first is Eternity. In this lifetime he’s known as Michael Scofield. He’s my mate, the other half of who I am. The second is Journey, also known as Tanith McAllister in this lifetime. She’s my identical twin sister, has been in every lifetime that I’ve had. We’ve almost always been as entwined as Michael and me. Not in any romantic/sexual sense, but in the way that a lot of identical twins are. Of course we have our very different lives, but we’ve always been able to be there for each other during the important times. I know that my death in my last lifetime was exceptionally difficult for her. She lived on for several more centuries without me. But, I think part of her death was because I wasn’t there to help her pull through the sickness she got. The third person is Cael, or Caleb McAllister in this lifetime. He’s Tanith’s mate. The last person who’s been through all my lifetimes with me has been Falcon. In this life he’s Fernando Sucre, and Michael’s best friend. They’ve been best friends through all our lifetimes, too. Been there for Michael in every incarnation and helped him in immeasurable ways each time. There are other people who’ve been important in each lifetime. But those are the only ones who’ve been there through everything, and been constants for my soul. The first lifetime that I had was before any of us became Ancients. Of course Tanith and me knew each other from the very beginning. We met Michael and Caleb when we were children. And, from that moment on, the four of us were inseparable. Fernando and Michael were already friends, but he didn’t really hang out with the four of us too much. I think he felt too much like an extra wheel when he was around all of us. But there were enough times with just Michael, Fernando, and me that I considered Fernando to be one of my friends, as well. That lifetime was very uneventful for all of us. We were kids getting to know the universe for the very first time. We were learning about what we’d have to do to become Ancients when we grew up. It was a very innocent time for all of us. And that wouldn’t carry through to the rest of our lifetimes. Now, to become an Ancient, you have to live a regular mortal lifetime first. You have to know what being alive and mortal is like before you can properly protect a planet and the life that grows on it. We all decided to be born into those mortal lives at the same time, so that we could all hopefully grow up together again. It worked for the most part. Although we each lived very different lives. Tanith and me were born into royalty. We were princesses, and one of us would inherit the throne. Michael was a stone mason’s son. Fernando was a tradesman’s son. And Caleb was a doctor’s son. We all met each other at fairly young ages, and I made that soul connection with Michael, although we knew that we’d never be allowed to marry. There were many twists and turns throughout that lifetime. Things that happened that shouldn’t have, and things that turned out for the best. My parents eventually let me marry Michael, although they had to invent a royal lineage for him to avert a full blown civil war in our nation. We had children and we grew old together. Granted, old in that kind of medieval civilization wasn’t really old. I think we were in our early 30’s when we died. I lost my twin several years earlier in childbirth. But that lifetime allowed us to become Ancients, and to move onto the longest lifetime we’ve had yet. My memories of our Ancient lifetime are very foggy for me. I know that we lived billions of years together, but we only had eight children in all that time. We protected a planet that was full of life. We split our time between living in our corporeal forms and living as just energy in the vastness of space. We always stayed with our planet, there were just long spans of time that were spent without bodies. Time passes faster that way, when you don’t have a sense of how long is going by. When the war broke out in the cosmos, Michael and me were among those who were destroyed by Chaos. We died fairly early in the war, and everyone was convinced that we would never be seen or heard from again. They believed that our energy had been destroyed forever. But there’s an undeniable truth about energy — it can’t be destroyed. It can only change form. I don't know what form that took, or how long it took for us to pull our souls back together enough to have another lifetime, but our next lifetime intertwines with this one so much. The Iconian/Wingrider lifetime was eventful. Tanith and me were born to the king’s mistress. The king already had five children with his queen, and after the last one’s birth, he started to seriously start enjoying the freedom of having a mistress that he could do whatever he wanted with. Of course Tanith and me weren't planned, but we happened anyway. And our mother wasn't like other women on Iconia who'd never dream of trying to blackmail the king. Our mother did blackmail our father. She made him get us into the best schools. She demanded, once we were old enough, that we be betrothed to men of standing and holdings. But, it’s the school years that I met Susan Grianne — one of Phillip’s eldest legitimate children, and therefore my half sister. We became friends easily, even though Susan’s identical twin — Sophie — hated Tanith and me with a passion. She didn’t want Susan to be anywhere near us because we were bastards. She hated that her father had given into our mother and made sure that we were properly educated. Sophie was my arch enemy throughout school. She did everything she could to humiliate me. She tormented Tanith, too. But Susan was always kind to us. She was a close friend. And, when the separatists decided to leave Iconia to colonize Altear, Tanith and me went with them. Tanith and Caleb were already married, and they both wanted to go. I met Michael once we got on the ship to go to Altear. We connected immediately and were inseparable from that moment on. Life as a colonist on Altear was difficult, to put it mildly. Originally the citizens of Iconia had come from Altear. Although they’d done to Altear what humans are currently in the process of doing to Earth. The planet became uninhabitable, so they fled to Iconia for a chance at continuing their civilization. So there were buildings, neighborhoods, and cities that had all been abandoned and reclaimed by the wild. We had to clear it all before we could even begin to start building our own houses and cities. It took a long time to do. We set up our own government, we did everything that we needed to do to have a growing and thriving civilization. Then the first war with Iconia broke out. Michael and me were killed in the chaos that ensued. Tanith and Caleb survived for quite a while longer, but Tanith got sick while she was pregnant with her and Caleb’s first child. She passed away while their son, Phoenix, was still an infant. I can’t imagine how hard that must have been on Caleb. But, as I was saying before, that lifetime mixes with this one so much… BioTech and NuGen are the reasons why these two lifetimes converge so much. They were able to get DNA samples from the dead on Altear (with help from the now former head of council). Then they started practicing their techniques of growing bodies from the DNA they’d stolen and ripping souls from the ether to force back into the bodies they’d grown. Susan, Nic, Tanith, Caleb, and so very many others were victims of this practice. While Michael, Fernando, and me had been born on Earth into these lives. So, when Michael and me came to the community, we started meeting the people we’d known from our last lifetime. People who should have been reborn into fresh starts and new lives. Instead, they were picking up where they’d left off, and doing so with damaged bodies and souls from the processes that were used to recreate them. But this is where we are now. This lifetime mixed with our previous. I’m still making the connections and piecing things together as I remember the past, but this lifetime will be a long one, and hopefully I won’t lose everyone around me that I love.