In every book, you are given a world that is not your own to explore and live in, provided you're given the correct nouns and adjectives that will allow you to experience another existence appropriately. No matter what book it is- whether it is a biography or a tale of dragons- to you, it is always fantasy. It is not a world that exists in your reality, not a life that you know personally. Even if you're reading a book about Shakespeare's life, this applies. Although he did exist for a certainty in our world, he did not directly touch us, and therefore does not truly have a form to us, except in our minds.
Having said this, I find it a shame that this documentary will be cast aside as yet another fantasy story, to be tossed in the Fiction pile. For, as I stated before, I am not a part of your world. I have not interacted with you, and therefore what I write is just another reality, just another world, and is completely separate from what you call your reality. I truly find it disappointing.
In my years, I have found that it is best not to force the truth upon people. So I have come up with a compromise. That compromise involves me writing a simple book.
This is a log of my life. I will not start from the very beginning, for that would be very boring and it will be hard enough to shorten my hundreds of years to just a few pages without adding in lists of mundane facts. Forgive me if I come across as rude, but it would be like reading the beginning of the bible. And who is going to turn these pages if they find the very first uninteresting? I need people to read this. After all, I'm not writing this for my health.
I will tell you my life. I will tell you how I was once unarguably human. I will tell you how I grew from a single being to an entity, how I destroyed planets, how I destroyed friendships, and how I traversed worlds. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
I begin writing this in the midst of battle. I've made a horrible mistake, I now realize. Of course, we often try to correct those mistakes at the worst of moments. To have made a problem as big as this is bad enough as it is. But what I did was truly absurd. I don't even know if the space/time continuum will survive this, and so I have no idea if, when things reset, this book will make it to the world that was. Perhaps I am merely wasting my time. But if this works, the reward may far outweigh the consequences.
Please forgive me. I have rambled on enough. I shall hurry with the documentation.
Shieb: Ok, this is the prologue to a very long project. The story will be jumping from reality to reality, so who knows just how many books I'll be writing? Anyways, the next chapter is just to set up what the girl's life was like before the phenomenon that changed her life, so I apologize if you Collateral fans get bored. If you just wanna read the part where she's in the Collateral world, skip to the third chapter.
Always remember that my activities are on my profile, so if you want to know what I have planned, check there.
Also, Gatewalker will be spanning many different books, movies, whatever, so I will be putting up a poll to see who wants to see what fanfic up here. No guarantees, but I will take your opinions into strong consideration.