When Nick Knight was a mortal man back in the thirteenth century, he had a younger sister, Fleur. She was young, innocent, and romantic; and she greatly missed her big brother Nicolas, away on crusade. Upon her brother's return from the Middle East, Fleur was deeply attracted to the mysterious man, Lucien LaCroix, who had come with him, the more so since they shared common intellectual interests. Well educated for the time, Fleur could read, and was fascinated by the study of the stars. Fleur later had a son, André, who was still a boy when she died, making Nick his guardian.