So I got this idea last night and my brain is going to die if I don't post the prologue at least. Since I do have another going on, this is only a 2nd priority. I just had to write it because I came to the horrid realization that I won't be able to work with Death's Hand in my other story. Okay, go ahead and destroy your eyeballs.
Within the Hell
Prologue
The plan had failed. The plan that my brother had made in secret for he and I. But the public plan, the fake one, the one our eldest brother knew, it had succeeded. But it was supposed to have failed, in the end.
And now, I pay the price.
I wonder when I realized that our efforts were in vain. The moment I stabbed my brother, the Emperor Sun Hai, seems about right. When I saw he did not fall. When, in confusion, I stepped back.
In the moment before I died.
I never embraced the idea of death. It was why I conspired with my brother Sun Li, who was neither youngest nor eldest. He had given me the promise of immortality.
I have it now, but not as one would expect.
I am dead, but denied my rest. My soul is tortured. My body, in understandable terms, cannot die. All my actions are not of my will, but that of my master, my brother, the Emperor.
Li left me to this, whether or not he knew the truth. He left me to a Hell in which I see no escape. A Hell that only I occupy.
But I will not suffer alone. I will make others suffer. I will see that they know my pain. But in the end, they will die and be freed of their agony. They will have what I cannot.
I am Death's Hand and this was the price to be paid.
So, you have just read my latest addition to destruction on the Jade Empire. Review if you want more to come. Or for me to stop. XP