The Solitarian: Part 1 of The Amaranth Series Read Online Free PDF

beaten pages and read what I’m able to comprehend. I turn it over and glance at the cover. ‘The Order’ is what it reads.
    “The Order of the Falcon are a secret society of family members from several different generations. They have books such as this to train their young members. Sir Delavan fell in love with a Falconer named Tahlia. Falconer is just another word for hunter. She revealed all of the Order’s secrets to him and he wrote about it to warn his kind.”
    “His kind? What did the Order of the Falcon hunt?”
    “They hunted a species of humans called Amaranthine.”
    “Like the species of flowers.”
    “The name was given to the flower over time. It means undying.”
    “Oh…” My eyes are drawn back to the pages of the book.
    “McKenna this is not fiction. Sir Delavan was an Amaranth. Tahlia knew that she would be forced to eliminate him one day so she revealed the societies’ secrets to him so that he could stay alive.”
    “I’m confused Keyan. Why are you telling me this? I think it makes a great story but…”
    “I am one hundred and thirty years old McKenna.”
    “Excuse me?” I stand. “Oh god you are insane. I should have known that a man that lives inside of a cave…”
    “No listen.” He stands and hurries over to his sack and begins to pull out pictures. He grabs a handful and hands them to me. “This is me in 1902. I was 18 years of age. I was preparing for college.” I focus my eyes in onto the photo and the young man is absolutely gorgeous. He has dark colored hair and is standing with the man that Keyan called father. I look at his eyes and they are identical, but he could be a relative.
    “You’ve been here for so long that you have driven yourself insane. How could you believe that this is you?”
    “It is me. When The Order killed my parents they were 260 years old. I have photographs to prove it.” He grabs more photos and places them in front of me. They are pictures that are older than the ones before. He even has small paintings of them. It is all very confusing. It is too unbelievable to actually consider.

Chapter 6
    I sit as Keyan explains a whole new world of things to me. Amaranthines live as long as they survive. They cannot be killed by any weapon or injury with one exception, they have something called a spiral life-ring that resides inside of each of their eyes. It starts at the pupil, spirals around the inner cornea and connects to the retina. It is only seen when you are very close or from the flash of a camera, which is why they hide their photos from the world. The ring has to be severed in order for them to die. It is no easy task. The body rejuvenates itself when they are injured. It takes a few days but doesn’t harm them in any way. They don’t catch colds or infections. An Amaranth can be born from another’s bloodline but there aren’t any guarantees that their children will be one of them. Only a male child is born with immortality. It has to be passed to a female or if she has the actual gene she can activate it by passing it to her mate. The killer part is that the trait is only activated by body fluids, which means that the partner has to be activated by sexual interaction. But a child can find a mate that doesn’t have the gene and activate it by passing it to them. It would be like contracting the biggest and most complex STD in history. I take in all of the information as it is told to me. I am in awe.
    Keyan says that his kind stops aging somewhere before their 20 th birthday. And only ages ten years every hundredth year, to blend in. So by the time he would turn 200 he would appear to be around thirty. The first hundred and ninety nine years are lived as a young adult or teen. That must be awesome. The only enemy that he’s aware of are the Falcons. They’re the only entity aware of them. The Falcons founder thought that it was dangerous and against nature to have a human evolve to such a level that they couldn’t be destroyed.