Prologue

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My eyes are closed, everything is good, like I am soaring through the air.

Wind blowing across my face, wind curling around my ears.

Water splashing upward on my skin, cooling the burning sensation.

But something is off. It isn't "good," something is amiss.

Then I remember, a boy hugging me in a cemetery, blood pooling on the floor by his feet, his face stained with scars and tears.

A girl, around my age, running through a thick wood, shouting names.

A young man beside the girl making stupid jokes that she would never find funny.

A sixteen year old girl, with her little five year old brother trailing behind her.

Then, I remember.

Ares, Lola, Apollo, Sol–

Then all goes black.

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