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Chapter 1 - Prelude: The Beginning and the End

The breeze is calm, but cold.

I can feel the wind crashing against my worn and torn clothes.

I look up: the sky, the clouds, the leaves swaying with that breath of life.

Everything is orange.

Is it autumn?

Doubt overwhelms me, but my body doesn't react.

I don't feel it.

It worries me… though not enough.

Can't feel my body?

It doesn't matter.

I feel nothing.

I am not.

Autumn? Wasn't it summer?

I remember...

What do I remember?

I'm lost.

I breathe. At least I think I do.

I can't move. I'm on the ground.

I'm wet — that I can feel. Looks like it rained.

From here, the sky is split: part clouds, part blue, part falling leaves...

Everything is divided.

Like me.

Then...

Why is it looking at me with such expectation… and yet such sorrow?

What a strange creature.

It's the only thing I can see from here.

And yet, seeing it in distress…

makes me feel sad.

I don't know why.

Strange creature.

I don't know what it is, but it has a majestic presence.

I don't know what it is... and I don't know what I am.

Its eyes seem to know me.

I can't say the same.

But... behind it I see the sky, I see clouds, I see leaves.

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