Prologue
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Prologue
I was dead.
My body just hadn’t realized it yet.
I tried to climb to my feet, but the muscles in my arms had given up long ago and I collapsed to the rain-soaked dirt. The comfortable numbness of defeat welcomed me.
“Get down!”
As I lay still, thunder rumbling and icy droplets stinging my face, I stared at the twisted form of death above me, and I knew the painful truth—this was it. All of my searching, all of my fighting, was for nothing. I’d have laughed if I could have summoned the energy.
The voices returned, calling for me to surrender my struggle against the inevitable, dragging me from consciousness.
“Give it up!” the voices echoed.
I glanced at the bitter rain clouds as colored stars wheeled overhead and time slowed to a crawl. The monster lifted his arm to finish it, and swung the weapon at my head, beckoning me into the beyond.
“Blume!”
It all went black.
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