Everything seemed to be going just fine for the twins, apart from school that was quite boring. Tobia and Olivia did not really understand how their ordinary classmates could be so uninterested in every subject that was delivered in class, but they got used to it by then and did not really ask themselves any more questions about it. On the other hand, the twins' aloof behaviour did not allow them to make many friends at school, which they didn't care much about anyway. Their classmates respected them, as Tobia and Olivia were clever kids, but not the know-it-all kind, so they did not attract any problems with anyone in their class, everyone just thought of them as 'the new twins'.

Olivia and Tobia's detachment from their class's dynamics wasn't destined to last for long though, as Bianca, a girl their age who had just moved to Triora, would bring lots of changes in the lives of the two unordinary kids. Bianca and her dad moved to Triora in November and, as luck would have it, they moved right on the other side of the road from the Capponi's.

Bianca's dad moved to Triora for work (at least that's what Bianca said) and, apart from a grumpy aunt, who lived next door to her, she didn't know anybody else there. She never said anything about her mother, but Olivia and Tobia soon realized that her mother was not with her. It was always her father who took her to school in the morning and picked her up in the afternoon, and they never saw anyone else enter the house apart from father and daughter.

Bianca's aunt lived in a separate house right next to hers, and Olivia and Tobia already had a chance to meet the lady even before Bianca moved there. Her aunt was always muttering to herself, looking down on everyone and avoiding all social interactions. Her only friend was a ginger cat, that would follow her everywhere. It wouldn't have come as a surprise to Tobia and Olivia if this weird lady turned out to be a witch herself, but they had talked about this possibility with their parents, and they excluded that... the woman was probably just a loner.

Bianca was different from her aunt, she was different from any other ordinary person that Tobia and Olivia had ever met. First thing, she wasn't an idiot, and this is not to say that all Ordinary were iditos, just... most of them were, and Tobia and Olivia did not blame them for that, they knew that the ordinary society was just kind of messed up, so to them it was only natural that its components, especially teenagers, would be kind of messed up too. So anytime Olivia and Tobia met ordinary folks who were clever, polite, curious and independent thinkers (which didn't happen often), they would be gladly surprised and instinctively drawn to meeting them.

For the most part, the Ordinary had shown themselves to be irresponsible, slick, malicious and cynic too. The history of the Ordinary spoke for itself: the Ordinary had reached the lowest point of human decency many times during several different historical ages. They showed no respect towards life by killing people, murdering children and having entire populations move away from home, and all because of the vilest reasons, like power, greed and that pathetic idea of omnipotence, that some ordinary humans still seemed to aspire to, even in modern days.

What witches and wizards have always found most wretched and pitiful about the ordinary people is that they never, ever learn from their mistakes. It was almost as if, within every other generation, they just erased everything they learnt from their past: that is the main reason why the magic world has stereotypically pinned the Ordinary as irresponsible creatures. They have always shown no sign of remembrance (sometimes not even signs of repentance) and they would just continue with their disrespectful, unethical and inadequate behaviours.

The world governed by the Ordinary had endured much trouble ever since humans developed into a modern society, with the result that Earth would not be able to survive for long at this rythm of exploitation. Temperatures and sea levels were rising, a lot of animals had been pushed toward the edge of extinction (some of them had been completely erased from the face of the Planet already, while others were being kept in captivity for human enjoyment), and humans themselves have been raging against each other countlessly.

Through the centuries, the world of witches and wizards have not interfered with the ordinary world, that was one of their first and most important precepts, but sometimes human evilness became so deep that witches and wizards were left wondering whether they should, in fact, act.

The world was in the most reckless of hands, should the magic world intervene in ordinary affairs, or should they just mind their own business? And what if the world they shared with the Ordinary was doomed to collapse because of their neglicence? What had to be the role of the Unordinary in all this chaos? Such questions have repeatedly been asked in the magic world on many occasions but, eventually, all decisions of interventions had always been rejected from the Supreme Order, as the witches and wizards' sake always has to be the Order's main concern. To hide their secret and their identity to the Ordinary was one of the reasons why the Supreme Order was even created in the first place.

Moreover, the Ordinary had always outnumbered the Unordinary, throughout all eras. It would have been impossibile to stop the Ordinary from their daily dose of madness without being noticed or discovered and, especially, without hurting them.

It was during the Middle Ages that witches and wizards started to be noticed for the first time. That was a time of death, misery and cruelty. Pestilences, famines, fires: ordinary Europe was not a happy place back then, but the magic world could not care less about it as they weren't really touched by those events. Witches and wizards used to live freely, they were free to roam, discover and experience their magic powers without limitations. In all that, it wasn't rare that ordinary people discovered a witch or a wizard in their villages, but at the time it was not clear to the Ordinary what these weird people were, so no real interventions used to be taken against them.

The Unordinary (that's what they started to be called by villagers) seemed to be able to control the natural elements, create supernatural potions, treat a variety of illnesses with herbal blends that were unlike anything they had ever smelled or tasted; they could even speak to animals, especially cats, and somehow they seemed to be able to control them, and crows too, as well as frogs. And as if this was not enough to spread panic and fright among ordinary paesants, just imagine their faces when they started to see that these weird magical creatures could even fly on broomsticks.

When the Ordinary first witnessed something real bizarre like men and women elevating on floating broomsticks, they did not know what to believe, let alone how to call these people. In the Middle Ages people were much more ignorant than they are nowadays (now some might think 'That is impossibile! More ignorant than in today's society?' Well, let's say it was another kind of ignorance, somehow more justifiable, perhaps).

As time went by, witches and wizards became more and more exposed everyday, until the Ordinary started to realize that magic people were hiding all around them, and the history of humans teaches that anytime someone is different from the norm, they are going to cause turmoil in the majority's close-minded vision of life. Ignorance is always the fuel to fear and, unfortunately, ignorance never ceased to exist in the world of humans.

The paesants' terror toward witches and wizards, but especially witches, grew stronger and stronger through the years, until the paesants began to think of ways to get rid of those weirdos. Just like that, the Unordinary began to be watched, followed, accused, and then... hunted, killed, burnt at stake, drown in rivers: ordinary paesants showed to be so creative in their ways of killing that the Unordinary almost did not recognize them anymore. The Ordinary had always been quite predictable, boring, completely unoriginal and then, for the first time, they unveiled their most heartless wit, as well as their strongest determination: witches had to be eliminated.

The Ordinary focused on hunting witches more than wizards because witches were generally the ones that travelled more. They used to go in search for herbs, spices, flowers and plants for their potions. As a matter of fact, potion-making was typically a witch job in the old times, not a one wizards would do. Moreover, women were considered inferior to men in the ordinary society of the time, so who better than a woman could become a lover of Satan? Indeed, ordinary peasants were only able to explain the world around them through the pre-imposed doctrin of religion: to them, magic was directly related to Satan, to evil, death and despair... they couldn't have been more wrong than that.

Magic has always been a pure, expressive, form of the mystic power of the natural elements: witches and wizards did not create magic themselves, magic had always been there. It was nature that offered itself to a restricted circle of humans, who would then become known as witches and wizards.

These people did not do anything peculiar to become the chosen ones: as the legend would have it, they were the kindest humans on Earth and, exactly because of that, nature chose them to cross the threshold of the physical world, by donating itself to them. They were the gentlest toward other humans, the gentlest toward animals, and the more insightful toward nature in all its different shapes and forms. They were chosen for a reason, they were chosen because they had it in their souls, that was their destiny.