'Prologue
'Dark forest walls loomed around the battered figure of a lithe woman, almost as if trying to shield the clearing she lay in from the outside world.
'A single moonbeam reached into the clearing, creating an oblong oval of protection around the shattered figure, illuminating her in a shower of sparkles.
'The girls mind was in torment as she lay crumpled on the leaf strewn ground; sobbing incoherent sentences as she tried to curl up into a fetal position but found that she could not move any of her limbs.
''…why…why…why…' was the constant mantra being chanted through her mind as she lay there, utterly broken.
'The damp dew of early morning was began to settle around her, chilling her scantly clad body, as a cool wind coursed through the surrounding trees to brush across her burned skin.
'Tormented visions flew behind her closed eyelids, scenes of gore, carnage, and eternal black and ever lasting grey; years of hanging suspended, with only conscious thought being allowed you.
'Visions of the Fates played across her consciousness; teasing her with their riddled words and vague promises of being set free, for she was truly a prisoner of fate.
'Slowly the racking sobs quieted, her ravaged body allowing itself a chance at rest. The cool wind felt soothing to her skin, cooling her heated temperature and bringing a sweet scent to her nose.
''How long has it been since I smelled something sweet?' the question flitted across her mind before being run out by the constant string of why's.
''Thinking hurts too much…' a voice in her head soothed, numbness spreading from it until almost all processes of her mind stopped. 'You shouldn't try to think darling child,' the voice came again, a harsh sound seeping through the numbness as darling,dripping with barely hidden malice, came across her subconscious.
'This slip allowed one last coherent thought to flit across the woman's mind, 'I escaped…Sirius…' then everything went black.
