Runes To Rain (The Balancing Brightness Trilogy #1)

PROLOGUE

To my dear and gentle readers,

In reading this account of my life, you will need to humor me for my memory is not what it was, and this story begins so far in the past, the distant beginnings of a full life, that I may not recount all the details with the level of accuracy I would wish.

What is true is that these events are my version of what happened and are what made me who I am today.

Perhaps even as they changed me, they changed the world.

As I sit in this quiet house with the scent of rain in the air and life going on around me, I slip into a remembrance that is both wonderful and sad.

While I do not wish I could go back to that point in my life, I do wish I had the chance to see those people I loved once more.

You, my dear reader, will now have a chance to meet, in a form, those I hold dear as well as my many enemies, and to examine the history of my life that made me what and who I am.

In addition to my own version of the story, I have included, with their permission, some journal entries and notes from people in my life.

Hopefully, these gifts will allow you to see another side to the story I tell, and hear another voice beyond my ramblings.

Sincerely,

Chaosta