Prologue

Everyone who gets close to me dies. It started with Carolyn Fry. Hot little number, she was. Came running back and thought she talked me into going back for the others with her. Said she'd die for them. Only reason I went back was because I was intrigued. Wasn't kidding when I said "How interesting." Only reason. Had to go and make me a fuckin' softie, that hot little thing. Fuck.

Imam tapped into my forgotten sense of duty, mother fucker. I told him it wasn't my fight, but he just had to go and talk me into it. I tell you what, I'm getting to be a pussy in my old age. Couldn't save him either. Not as good as I thought I was.

And then there's Jack. The only person I ever really cared about. Something about her. I don't know. Fuck me. I must really be getting soft. Saved her twice back on that hell hole. Once from Johns and once from one of those alien things. Mean fuckers, those were. But I've met worse. Shit. Twice.

I never wanted to get caught up in this whole Necro thing. It wasn't my fight, and I knew I wasn't big enough to handle it. I just wanted to go find Jack and take off. Crematoria was the third time I saved her. Psh. Her knight in tarnished armor. Little did I know Jack really did grow up. Where the fuck did she come up with the name Kyra anyway? Man, she made Fry look like a fuckin nun. Still had that spunk too. I guess she's probably the only person I could have really loved, but it just didn't happen that way. Strong survival instincts, I gotta give her that. Took brass balls to hop onto that Necro ship and risk everything just so she wouldn't die like she thought I had. No faith. That made the fourth time. And she went and got herself killed. And I have nothing left.

Most people in my position would just shake it off. Hell, I've got a whole armada at my fingertips and I still don't have anything. Nothing I want, anyway. I'm not a leader. Fuck that. I'm a loner, drifter. A kingdom wrapped up in my mind. Nothing but me. Should have been nothing but me and Kyra, but, as always, the person who got close to me ended up dead. Got nothing left, and it's gonna stay that way.