Prologue

Her hair flew all around, whipping her in the face with every gust of wind, making her normally perfect auburn hair into a matted mess on top of her pale head. But she dare not move. Even when the rain started, thick and heavy, soaking her clothes and body, she still stood there unmoving. The only thing that gave away her utter statue like form was the raising of her chest as she breathed. She could barely see in front of her but she knew they were there, she felt them. Their sickening auras that oozed such darkness that it choked the light out of everything they came close too. The air became foul as they crept closer, not even the rain could mask their ever growing presence. The storm grew more wild but still the darkness inched closer to the unmoving girl. She knew they would come for her, they always take what is owed to them, yet she still could not hate the ones that damned her to this future of darkness. They had given her 17 years of blissful happiness and love but her 18th name day was looming ever closer, it would be the day she would be claimed by their darkness. She knew they wouldn't take her today. As foul and corrupted as they were they always keep there end of a bargain. They promised 18 years. She still had 10 months. This little surprise visit was just to remind her that her life wasnt hers, that she was on borrowed time, and as quickly as their inky darkness came into view they were gone. Creeping back to whichever hell they came from. counting down the days they would take her. Yet she just stood there staring at the place she saw them. She stood there til the rain had stopped and the wind had died down. She only snapped out of her trance when she noticed the night starting its claim over the day, darkening the sky. And then she ran.