Oh, fear not in a world like this
And thou shalt know erelong
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

PREFACE

I NEVER REALLY UNDERSTOOD MY LIFE, UP UNTIL THIS POINT SEEMED SO EASY. IT was easy, to live without pain, sadness and death. I had never known hell, only heaven. I had never known grief, only joy.

And now, staring straight into the eyes of evil, I realized that my life was always going come to this point. The stories that they had told me of this evil, how colourful they may have been did not deter me. It was the past, how could I be wary of lore? There was no reason to hide and no reason to run, at least not for me.

And now that there is, I understand.

No-one, not even us, can hide from hell.