Prologue ~ Child is Shaken
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The first ten years of my new life were spent in abject misery. I was the son of some common street whore, or at least that's what the unsavory sort said in passing. It was far from the truth. The woman who raised me had fallen victim to her own heart. Her lover had abandoned her when she needed him most. Even so, she continued to talk fondly of him when anyone asked. I didn't share the same sentiments nor did I begrudge her. I simply felt anger bubble up inside me for her dearest sperm donor.
For the first time in my life I was experiencing what it felt like to have a beggar's hand. It wasn't pretty, and it certainly wasn't fun. My auburn hair made me a target for bottle throwing and arm swinging drunks. My guesses were that they thought I was some Irish. That's all the news would talk about in this age on this godforsaken island. Attacks from the Provos would be listed on the front covers of newspapers weeks old. God, it was like watching an episode of Terror in Resonance live. Art imitating life in reverse.
My life in the slums came to ahead when my new mother passed away while I was pulling a grab and run stunt at a nearby convenience store. The constables, as the Brits called them, managed to chase me for blocks on end. By the time I reached her in hopes of pulling on their heartstrings she was nothing but a shriveled corpse laying on a pile of blankets in an alley way surrounded by snow. The British police had skidded to a stop where I stood frozen, surrounded by cans and bottles on the ground. One even attempted to rest a hand on my shoulder. I shrugged him off, dropped the shopping bags in my hands and grabbed the hiking packs next to the dead woman's corpse. With that in hand I fled the other way, away from the cops, the mess in the alley, and the life that I came to know there.
And that, that was when I stumbled upon a couple making their way into Diagon Alley.
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|September/18/2018| This will start short and gradually extend as it continues.
Edited |September/20/2018|.