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Prologue
The cold, damp, and wispy branches of the dead tree scratched at my arms and shoulders as I ran past the outer part of the woods and into the foliage next to the quiet lake. The clouds had finally broken, the rainfall finished with its refinement on the town yet the quick disappearance of the offending wet liquid did nothing to ease the heaviness in my chest, I still felt as if I were drowning. A thunderous reverberation echoed through my chest and tinkered off. It took me a moment to realize that the sound was my own heart.
The formerly tough impenetrable shell had been shattered, my hidden heart left unwrapped and exposed. The rough edge of the phantom armor digging into my core was left dulling off of it. I let the hollowness take me for a time and let my strangled sobs mix with the demoralizing thud of my echoing heart.
The moon hung high enough that it illuminated my surroundings, giving me more sight in the night sky; I stood up from where I had fallen next to the shore. The heaviness of mud and earth weighed on the skirt of my dress, but I ignored the mess and gazed over the ripples of the lake as I had done so many times. I caught the reflection of the night sky, stars twinkling in the ripples, but my gaze fixed on what the currents of the water were doing to the moons image. It was twisting the cylindrical glowing mass into a hazy mess. It looked like a stretched out broken heart and I huffed in sodden amusement. It seemed as if it were weeping with me, showing me through its reflection- in the only way the dazzling orb could speak- that I was not alone.
The years of lies engulfed me like a swarm of deadly bees. I felt as if I could feel thousands of tiny punctures truly stinging me in unison by the hundreds. I whimpered as I took a step back to lean against the tree, my hand reaching out to one of its thick branches to steady myself. The pain was too great and I wished for the bees, that they were the true source of my pain, that it was that simple. Nothing in my life would ever be simple again.
Dark Fantasy.
Get ready for the paranormal.
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