Prologue
The innocence of a child is a beautiful thing, running under the heat of the sun, enjoying the outside world, playing with small animals in a meadow full of colors. Living in the light.
But where there is light, there is also a shadow and curiosity can be a dangerous thing. Like when Alice followed the white rabbit down its rabbit hole. Once the darkness is acknowledged you will find it everywhere, along with the creatures in it. That is why they say that ignorance is bliss…
While all that is true, Alyssia was not a child born into the light nor was she ignorant of the shadows but her mother let her only daughter live her childlike innocence in the light. That is until it was stripped away in one fell swoop. From then on everything changed but unlike Alice who followed the rabbit out of sheer curiosity, Alyssia turned her back on the light and chose to walk in the shadows with all the other creatures in it.
