Chapter One
Location: Tudor Hall Mansion, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
On another normal grey-skied day, down in the southern side of England, a lone male individual figure sat firmly and quietly in his desk within his vast study room, tapping a black pen on the piece of paper laid out before him. He wore a suit jacket, polo-neck top, trousers, and leather shoes, all in matching pure black, the same pure black as his chin-length hair. With lips as stiff as a board and cold steel-grey eyes, the man looked around his study, distantly observing all the various things he had collected and achieved across his years of life.
Some of the memories and feelings he had experienced from such inched their way back to the surface of his mind. People that he had to meet, hardships that he had to endure, and secrets that he had to keep, for the better and for the worse. Across each and every chapter of his life and career, he had felt the heaviness of fate and burden weigh down on him more and more. He had discovered truths and revelations, far more than he had ever expected or anticipated, beyond humanity and the universe itself. After taking enough time to think, the man swallowed his dignity and finally began writing on the paper with clean precise handwriting.
Dear Guest,
I am writing this to offer you an invitation to the Tudor Hall Mansion for a very special gathering of sorts. Any of you who have received this I may have met or at least associated myself with from place to place, from time to time.
For nearly most of my life, I have kept quite an ever-increasing number of secrets. Some minor and trivial, others major and personal, the rest are of utmost importance and could prove to be essential as much as dangerous.
This party may be an opportunity for me, and possibly for you as well, to come completely clean with my past, out and open. By realising and being content with both our similarities and differences, we may be able to come together for a cause greater than all else.
The party begins at noon this Sunday, you can dress as you may, be it formal, casual, or otherwise. Our impressions on the outside only make up half of what we are, yet it is within us that indeed show who we truly are.
Yours sincerely, Doctor Boden Black
To be continued...