After Christine's Death: Prologue

I will never forget that time, so long ago.

How they all despised him for being all that he knew.

They couldn't see anything true.

I admit that at first I was frightened.

After I saw the power he had over Christine, I shied back.

She was afraid of him, and yet she loved him.

Not the way she did Raoul, that is for sure, but she loved him.

My mother helped me to see what was behind the mask and I saw such hurt behind it, such sorrowful eyes.

I guess that is how I came into this mess, who could know that Meg Giry could fall in love with a Phantom.