prel·ude
—noun
1. an action or event serving as an introduction to something more important.
"The nostalgia's sickening," she laughed without humor, trembling hands in sync with the front—mussing her hair and fluffing it out around her face and body in a practiced attempt to hide her discomfort. To give her a false sense of security behind the protective blanket those dark locks created. The girl paused to look on at the group surrounding her, learning everything about her that she'd tried so hard to hide. Her voice turned watery, leaving her Russian red lips in broken, pitched intervals. Her haggard appearance resonating with the words: "I wasn't much before, but I'm certainly nothing now."
This is a small snippet of what is approaching.
Please do not fault me for handing out something of such brevity; I was asked to leak the tiniest of snippets by a reader. I feel like this brief moment captures a lot of what this series is going to be about without giving too much away. I can assure you that what is to come is much more verbose and rotund. You have been warned.
