everlasting day
BOOK ONE:
Before
There is nothing to be feared from a body, Harry, any more than there is anything to be feared from darkness. . . It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; chapter 26, The Cave.
Preface
The end can come in many ways. For us, it came in the form of a phone call.
The familiar voice of Alice, usually reassuring and peace-filled spoke in stressed tones through the earpiece.
My body froze. Rage ruled.
My loved ones saw the fire in my eyes and knew, this was it, it had happened.
The war had begun.
Only this war would have one battle.
And many losses.
As I hung up the phone and we began the race back to our family I gazed unblinkingly at the members surrounding me.
How would it feel to lose one of them? How much would it hurt? I couldn't ever imagine. And at that moment I knew, those destroyers of love and binds would pay. We'd take them down before they hurt anyone else. Destroyed any more families.
Before they destroyed ours.