Story: Andrea Iovinelli
Art: Walter Rota

The story takes place in an everyday alternative reality. Rashid Le Beu, was the very first human being on Earth to be able to demonstrate his amazing parapsychological skills. After a deep research work on his brain, the whole human race was finally able to discover and to exploit the unlimited power of the mind, almost to the utmost of its potential (or so it's thought to be). This revolutionary scientific achievement, however, had very important social effects which led, day by day, to two different opposing concepts, two distinct philosophies of life, to the splitting into two factions or "ideological races":
- the luminants, who aimed to refine their intellectual ability through pharmaceutical therapies, developed by the "Le Beu" case;
- and a minority, already ostracized and slurred (offensively called obscurants), that was against this way of living, considering it an outrageous act against nature and therefore ethically unacceptable especially since nobody knew where it could lead to.

After some years of mass illusion, however, all the enhancement which was brought about through pharmaceutical products, starting from the specific therapies studied by the luminants (improvements which, among other things, were propagandistically overstated) turned out to be all but miraculous, they were only transitory and rather fleeing. The really "elected" were indeed the ones that were able to demonstrate consistent and supernatural mind ability with continuity and with no therapy whatsoever. These people were called the naturally illuminated.

VOLUME ONE

Everywhere in the world, there have always been people appearing and disappearing into thin air without ever knowing where they have come from or where they have gone.

Daniela is one of them but nobody knows. The only thing we know about her, is that she was found in the middle of the countryside when she was just a few months old, and that after some time she was adopted by the people that had found her.

Years pass by and Daniela grows up like any other normal child, but once at school, her teachers find out that her intelligence is out of normal. Analysis reveal that she's one of the rare naturally illuminated just like Le Beu, but even though her parents try to hide this truth, the fact is too obvious. As a matter of fact, Daniela's parents are fierce supporters of the obscurants ideology, they are more than convinced of this, so they decide the same destiny for their daughter too. Daniela, however, doesn't like being "special", since this is causing her to be constantly refused and ragged by her classmates. So while the scientific community and the whole world is wondering whether or not to keep on doing further researches on the illuminated, Daniela is discovering the amazing and surprising abilities she possesses her notwithstanding.

All the extraordinary gifts of Daniela disclose definitively when some criminals break into the house and...

THE CHARACTERS

Daniela (alias Julia Regis): she's a tough girl, resolute, always eagerly searching for the truth on her past. Weak and emotionally unstable, because of her troublesome and stormy past, she finds an unbelievable strength just in the most extreme situations. She's very unsure and finds it difficult to have relations with other people. She has only few and difficult friendships, because she feels obliges to keep most part of her life a secret. Her sporadic love stories which she has always intentionally refused to develop and carry on are even worse.

Kersin (alias Trevis Knight): he's Daniela's secret personal guard, her "guardian angel". A man of good disposition, generous, unselfish, incredibly brave and very skillful in the art of fighting. He was the trusted right arm and brotherly friend of Daniela's father, to whom he has sworn to protect her at his own life's cost. He loves Daniela and often sees in her all the same qualities of her father in fact, in a way, he considers himself to be her godfather.

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