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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

PROLOGUE

Cold blood pounds through my veins, adrenaline forcing my thoughts to blur as I force myself to stand on the swaying earth. There was never a chance to make a different choice and now I will have to live with the consequences.


Forced into a decision I would have killed not to make, I look down at the dead body at my feet. My name is Jade Suon and I have just died. The body, laying so pale and alone in the darkness of an empty city park, is mine. Shadows obscure the familiar features, long dark hair curled around bloody shoulders. I have shed one form of living for another.


A pink edge to the horizon warns of the coming dawn and with tears in my eyes I step over the unmoving form and walk away. Following a concrete path to the edge of the park where I hail a taxi cab. The driver in the yellow vehicle does not notice anything odd about me. How can he? I haven’t changed in any outer sense. I still look like the Jade Suon that had, so naively, wandered into the danger of the park.


Cold raindrops begin to fall against the window as I look out at the lights, buildings and people that pass by in a slow flash of life.


My name is Jade Suon and I have just died.


My name is Jade Suon and I will now start living