PROLOGUE
She woke up gasping for breath.
Forcibly drawing air into her starved lungs, the brunette beauty glowed with life. Her eyes opened to show dilated pupils then slammed shut; her mouth moist and red as though she'd been engaged in a heavy make-out session.
He watched as she sat up halfway in her bed while struggling with her brown long hair, putting a hand to her brow; she began to cry. Her breasts clung to the blue tank top and the mismatched red plaid boy shorts left little to the imagination as they cupped her rounded cheeks like a lover's palm. Great racking sobs worked their way up her body until she lay down and rolled over on her stomach.
The viewpoint shattered and the shards reformed to show the young woman's face, her eyes still closed. She clutched at the sheets in the bed around her, drawing the pillow underneath her chin and began slowly calming herself with deep, intentional breaths. A few final tears slid down her face as she found her way back into a deep sleep.
A lone being watched outside of the scene from shadows of his own. Coal colored leather jacket covering him from neck to hessian booted foot. He sat alone in a darkened corner outside of a stone structure, waiting for the right crystal to return to him. Several floated past lazily, as if on a gentle breeze. Each held moments of recent events important to him, his plan.
A trembling immortal hand curled to catch one of the several glowing spheres. He held it weightless within his black leather palm as he surveyed the scene of the woman. She was now resting peacefully although tear tracks were still visible on her pale cheek. Even exhausted and haunted by nightly visits she retains her beauty, he mused.
His strong face, with one cerulean blue and one tawny eye, framed by silver blond hair appeared as it if would crumple for a split second. Overwhelmed, the being's eyes shuttered as he felt her pain and his own. He didn't want to relinquish what was his back into the black night of the sky above, but knew it must be done. For now.
Her time was almost up.