Prologue/Introduction
I never thought I would die this way. In all the ways I had imagined it, in all of my wildest imagination, I never dreamed that it would be this.
What a way. I wonder how they were going to cover it up.
How does the world think that Chase Elizabeth Stevens dies?
A car accident, a mugging gone wrong, maybe they will say I drowned. There's enough ocean around here for the last one to work. Or perhaps they won't try and hide what's happened to me; I mean after all, the best place to hide something is in plain sight right? Maybe I'll turn into an unsolved murder, a homicide in this small little place in England, I'd make front page news.
I could just imagine what the papers would write, MURDER BY THE SEA. Or maybe something like, UNSOLVED UNKNOWN.
I'm kidding myself; there to careful for that, the truth was I would just disappear. That or they had turned into the animals that they are and are just going to eat me and leave me, but I doubt that, I doubt that very much.
I took in what I was sure to be one of my last deep breaths and squeezed my eyes shut. I didn't want my last sight to be of these four menacing creatures gathered around me.
So I thought of him.
My breathing was more ragged now, I felt my self growing weak, and my body felt like it was falling.
I heard a loud crack and was only dimly aware that it was my head that had made that sound.
Everything went dark.
Well I think I did pretty well with that don't you? I might not be as bad at this book writing jumbo as I thought I was, nice to know.
By now you know that my name is Chase, well good, you're paying attention. Because it's really, really Important that you all pay attention to what I'm going to say to you in this story, it is not a joke, everything that I write about has happened and is continuing to, I am risking my life by telling you all in my story simply: the world you know and live in is a lie. Things happen in this world, every night, every day and we all simply shrug it off.
Did you know that our brains are amazing thing's so smart and so capable of almost anything, even capable of making us think we've seen something different to what we have, even making us forget something all together.
The point I'm making by telling you that is simply, you have all come into contact with the other world countless times, but you just don't remember.
Now here comes the risking my life part, please don't put this book down, read it as fast as you can and hide it because by reading it you are joining in to my journey, you're life is now in danger to.
But I'm still not explaining am I?
Mostly to know what I mean you need to read my story, I am giving away priceless secrets, secrets that have been kept for centuries. Secrets that they would kill to protect, does that make it any clearer to you on the fact that I can die because I'm telling you this, I hope so because a lot more people than just me can get hurt from this. You for one, my friends, and my publishers it is that important anyone who reads my story can be hurt and killed. Why are you looking out of the window? Read!