Prologue
Everything was black in the beginning. Everything. And not just black, but that inscrutable black, like being so far into a cave without light that you can feel the darkness, feel the color of black. So black that you're in a womb, in some sense, but no warmth. No feeling. Just blackness.
And then there is light. Light so bright that it blinds you immediately. And then there is one face, and one face only… forever.
That's how it was with me in the beginning, anyway. I've never asked anyone else, and I don't think that anyone else would ever tell me. Probably because there is only one other person like me, and I have never met her. But I am going to. I am going to as soon as I can.
I remember that first second, that first instant when everything started, before my life lost all its meaning and I went on a mission to find new meaning and a new life. It all started with the "on switch", which is just how I described it earlier. Light, but light beyond what you would think light should be. I didn't know what it was at first, because it took me a minute to gain my senses. But the light… and the pleasure! The pleasure that you are coming out of the blackness and into the morning… the morning of your life as a slave.
