PROLOGUE
"When She woke up the world was on fire."
-Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
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I have slept for a very long time. How long? I would never know. It's just that I have been here for a long period, maybe ten years? a decade or maybe a century. Time does not hold any place here. I even forgot my own birthday even my age. My name? Natalya and oh, I cannot remember my last name. Do I have a family? It's been so long that I think I forgot about it.
Do I feel lonely here? I guess not. The darkness is very comforting. The last thing I remember before this darkness had enveloped me is the sound of roaring airplanes. The cry of children and the terrible sound of guns. I think were at war during that time. The pile of dead bodies, the stench of death and the hopeless look on the people's face. How I was killed, I'd never know.
The darkness was very kind to me. It gives the comfort, a mother can only give. It's warm when I'm cold and it protects me just like a parent would always do. It has taught me things that were beyond the limits of a human.
But everything doesn't stay the same.
I knew the time would come when the darkness will let me go.
And the most unexpected thing is that the time is now.
It's painful. As painful as my death.