Silvana Ebony

Good Evening.

My name is Silvana Ebony Emerson. I was born December 31, 1989 in Ireland, where I lived for the first few years of my life. My twin sister was born only a few minutes after myself on January 1,1990. Our mother was told that she should not have children due to a potentially fatal health condition. She chose, instead, to have us and died giving birth to me. In order to save my twin sister, they had to do an emergency c-section.

We lived with our father for seven years before he died in a freak roofing accident and we were sent to live with our Aunt Siobhan and her second husband, Ciaran. (Go figure that Ciaran is one of the evil characters in a book series that I am reading). We didn't do well there. At least, I didn't. I don't think our family liked me much there. Unfortunately for my sister, my Aunt had had so much of me that she couldn't take it anymore. She sent my sister and I to some "Foster Care" place. Basically an orphanage. The only reason my sister came with me is because she gave them an ultimatum. ("Either she stays or we both go". So we both went.)

Two years ago we ran away. We will admit we are large Harry Potter fans and to us seventeen was old enough to be "of age", like it is in the wizarding world. Screw 18. We packed what little we had, stole some necessary items and went down to the local boating dock and stole a boat, or a...uh...rather small ship. My sister is the one who has always been interested in the ocean and knows how to operate the boat and read the maps and such. I am more of the documenter, the crew. Yet, we both consider ourselves Captain. We don't have a crew, unless you count Buds, the stray German Shepard we picked up at our last stop.

I guess you could say that we are modern day pirates. Only armed in a more traditional manner. We don't steal or kill...unless necessary ( I mean the stealing). More on our adventures later. I don't want to make a first post too long.

About me? Well, I have red/brunette hair, greenish hazel eyes, Irish/British accent and am slightly taller than my semi-short twin , although you can't tell the difference. I speak Irish, some French and English. I am more of a quiet person and can come across as cold-hearted and unfriendly. Really, my intentions are not as such. As my sister likes to put it, I am more on the dark side of things. And I suppose she is right. She is the light and I am the dark. I am her evil twin.

And with that I will leave her to write her side of our depressing adventure.

Silvana