Disclaimer: I do not own Yuu Yuu Hakusho. Don't sue me.
I'm not entirely sure where I'm going with this random bit of writing, although I have more of an idea than I did
twenty minutes ago, but here it is.
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Prologue:
So tired.
Cold.
…
…Cold? Shouldn't be….
I should be waking up, I think… I think normally I would be awake now. Something's wrong.
Why am I still asleep? …I'm not asleep. Not awake, either. Between somewhere. I don't know.
…I should wake up. I should… I think something's wrong. Too cold.
…Just a few more minutes, I want to sleep. Tired…
So cold….
Just a few more minutes, I'll wake up, really.
Too tired right now.
Too cold….
…
The sun rose over the mountaintops to shine on a vast grey country buried in snow and ice. It shone pale, thin white
across barren and desolate plains and hills, frozen black rivers and deep icy forests, bringing them weak illumination
but little warmth. Once in a great while it reached some tiny, isolated town, a few hopeless, run-down huts huddled
together against the cold, but in those places nothing stirred at its touch; none came outside to meet it or even went
to a window to feel its rays against their face. Doors and windows were all barred and shuttered as tightly as possible
against the icy air, and if this meant that dawn's light was also shut out, well, such was life. It wasn't worth freezing for.
The light stirred something, though.
In the middle of a cold dark wood, a few of its weak rays managed to filter as far as the deep forest floor. There they
encountered a small figure clothed all in black, curled up asleep at the foot of a tree. He was shivering in his sleep
and had a worn cloak pulled tightly about him, for what little protection it gave.
And at the light's touch, the figure began to awake.
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A/N: Well, there you have it. A Prologue. Yes, it's very very short and nothing happened; I'm aware of this.
Prologues are allowed to be short and vague. Length, actual plot, and (probably) angst will come later.
