Prologue

As usual, my hunger was what drug me back to reality. Peering across the street my alleyway adjoined, I saw a young girl being forced through the Quarter gateway. From my vantage point in the alley I could easily hear and see her desperate sobbing.

My eyes watered as my own… journey through that gate resurfaced.

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Hush little one

Your mother is near

I will never fail

to protect you

Hush little one

The Watch is near

Must hold the veil…

“Seize the traitors!”

With that the door became vapor and the Watch flooded the humble apartment like high water through rapids. My parents never stood a chance and I was torn from my mother’s embrace. My mother sobbed my name and I cried for her, to no avail.

The unfeeling Peacemaker drug me to that gate and sent me careening through it. I sat their until the wee hours of the morning, listlessly crying for my mother.