It was dark.
At least, it was supposed to be dark, but apparently the Gods above didn't really care about what was supposed to be. Sasaki Haise groaned again and moved around, so that he was lying on his stomach instead of his back, with his hands behind the pillow, and his face pressed into the soft material.
It was well after midnight, and after a very long day at the job – with a few Ghoul Investigator-hunts pushed in between, because apparently he was just a pushover that people could use as they pleased – all he needed was a quiet night, where he could catch up on some very needed sleep.
But of course, he wasn't even allowed to do that. He groaned and pressed his face a bit harder into the pillow. So hard that it was almost impossible to breathe. Yet the lights just seemed to shine even brighter.
"All right! That's it!" he thought and moved around again, so that he could carefully sit up, without straining his arm too much – Yes, thanks for that, Urie, by the way! But to his great confusion he didn't feel as much as a twinge of pain when he sat up fully.
"What the…?"
It was weird, but suddenly he felt much more… happy? But why? He was generally a happy person so it didn't really confuse him that much, but this happiness was different from his own. It was more… innocent?
Haise was a first class Ghoul Investigator. He knew of blood, death, sadness, pain and various other things that would make the common man shit his pants. But – as far as he could remember – he had never felt this… light before. It was, as if, all his troubles, and all bad things in the universe had just decided to disappear and leave him alone for a while. Not that he would complain. He liked this feeling of naivety – of not feeling the knowledge of all the horrors in the world weighing him down.
But something was wrong. That much was obvious to him. It wasn't just how he felt inside, but even his body seemed out of place. More… awkward and weak, than what he was used to. He tried to feel his kaguan, but found to his shock that it wasn't as strong as he was used to.
"Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit! What's going on?!"
He started to panic, yet – he suddenly realized, that he had yet to open his eyes. "How dumb can you be?" he thought to himself, as he slowly felt the lid of his one eye opening.
It was early morning, from what he could see. Rays of light shinned through the window and hit him in the face, but it was a nice feeling. Warm, comfortable… lazy feelings washed through him, and even though he had be panicking two seconds before, he now had the irresistible urge to smile.
"So I did fall asleep?" he asked himself out loud, rubbing his eyes from sleep. His actions paused though, when he heard his own voice. Haise's eyes snapped open and he started to frantically look around him, for any sign, that he was the only one there.
… Only one where?
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I'm kind of new to this whole… writing fanfic thing, but if anyone likes it I won't complain!
I know it's short, but it's a prologue… I guess.
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