NOTE: Parts of these chapters, ESPECIALLY the first, may be gruesome to readers. You have been warned.

Why was I brought here? In the lingering darkness, an eternity spent chasing a distant light only to be stripped of it inches before my fingers could coil around Hope, a malignant aching rending my efforts pointless.

Yet, I wake.

Stripped of my home, my life, my family- with no guide or sight to aid my survival save for an exploratory and investigative mind.

Yet, something watches, when the crows and insects sleep.