Chryseis

by Twilight-staruby

This is a story of a girl who, after her sister's death, moved to Ashton, a quiet little town in Massaschusetts. There, she finds out that the town isn't as quiet as it had seemed...nor as harmless...For her sister's own killer is there himself...

2. Prologue

Title:Chryseis

Author:Twilightstaruby

Prologue:

That was how they found her, laying beside the river, her face laying sideways on the palm of the hand tucked under her. She seemed to be frozen in an everlasting sleep; like Snow White in her glass coffin after she swallowed the poison apple. Her lips were curled up slightly in a smile, her face serene and peaceful, in contrast to the blood that had stained the grass she was lying on a bright crimson red.

Chryseis felt her throat clench until she was almost unable to breathe. Grief welled up in her in volumes, suffocating in their intensity.

"Alianne!" The name tore out of her with a wail as she tried to go to her sister but was held back by the restraining hands of the sheriff.

Behind her, her mother, Alianne's mother, fainted in the arms of her husband, unable to cope with the shock of seeing one's child dead.

"You promised me! You promised that you would be with me forever! That you will take care of me! Why, Alianne? Why?" Chryseis cried out,"Answer me, damn it!"

But she never replied. She simply lay there in silence, frozen in time. forever gone to those who loved her.

That was the last time Chryseis saw her, in that peaceful serene... and the twin puncture marks on the side of her neck.