okay, well here's the intro. enjoy and please comment!
Sunlight brushes the tree tops, making the canopy sparkle and leaving rippling pools of light on the dusty earth below.
A tender breath of wind flies through the golden leaves tugging them free; releasing them to soar with the birds, taking them to places beyond the reach of the grounded.
Each one a symbol of something that now lies beyond my reach.
For, I exist now as a being of shadows. Cursed to never again feel the sun's warm embrace or the stinging kiss of a rainstorm.
I am a specter of times gone by. Haunted by the memories of the past, which function as my soul companions. Burning guilt and self-loathing, my only remaining allies.
They are all I have left. The only traces of what was...