~*~ Prologue ~*~

She stood outside the sterile white room wondering what she had gotten herself into. Two weeks ago Eternity had seen a flyer posted on the bulletin board at her dorm. Her friends had left without her and she faced the board reading the paper in solitude. The biology students were looking for students between the ages of 18-25 to test a new experimental drug. The students would all be screened and tested to find the most 'average' healthy people they could to conduct their study. She almost walked away but then something caught her eye. Any student who participated received $200. For a struggling student like Eternity this was an opportunity she could not afford to miss.

She had seriously debated whether or not to go, and now that she was standing outside the room she still was unsure. She knew experimental drugs were risky but the money kept enticing her to stay.

When the door finally opened a man wearing glasses and a white lab coat stood before her. She was taken aback by his cliché appearance but shrugged it off and followed him inside. He ushered her to a single chair in the middle of the room and asked her to roll up her sleeve. She winced at the sight of the large needle and wished she had never signed up.

"So it says here on my sheet that your name is Eternity."

"Yes, that's right."

"And you're 21 years old, just celebrated a birthday last month."

"Yes."

"Okay great. So before I inject you do you have any questions?"

"Well actually, I as a little fuzzy on what this experiment is about."

"The serum we're injecting acts like a coloured magnet inside the body. It attaches itself to certain cells and then because of its colour we can track where it goes."

"And why are you doing that?"

"We're researching the affects of aging. We want to know exactly what causes aging, or more specifically, why some people seem to age faster than others. The study will take a year to complete. We will meet again in six months and then again in a year."

"And this stuff you're injecting, are there side effects?"

"That is always a risk, hence the experiment part of this, but I assure you any side effects should be temporary. Are you ready to begin?"

"Well I guess so."

Eternity closed her eyes and felt the needle plunge into her arm. She always hated the feeling of having some foreign substance shoved into her bloodstream. She opened her eyes and unrolled her sleeve.

"There," the experimenter said, "I bet that didn't even hurt a bit."

~*~ End Prologue ~*~