Chapter 0 - Prologue

Have You Ever Told a Lie?

Written by: Ghost Wulf

Prologue

The graveyard was quiet at night. The light of a crescent moon filtered through the treetops, casting a pale glow.

Trying to see past tears, a girl stumbled around the gravestones. Her gasps broke the stillness as well as her cries of pain every time she lost her footing. Cuts covered her legs and bare feet from falling.

A strangled sob broke from her throat as she collapsed in front of a gravestone. She rested her cheek on the face of the stone, her clenched fists above her head on the top. Tears darkened the stone in ragged lines from her cheek.

In one of her fists, she held a kitchen knife that glinted in the moonlight.

“I’m sorry . . . . Kyon . . . .” the girl choked out.

Kyonchi Natsuka, the name on the grave.

The girl’s hand dropped, driving the knife towards her heart. No one would witness her final moments except the gravestones around her.

Then suddenly she stopped, jerking her head up as if she had heard something. Her eyes widened in horror and she scrambled backwards, now holding the knife out towards something else. Something invisible.

“W-who . . . ?” She couldn’t finish the sentence as her back hit a tree, stopping her escape.

The night remained silent. Anyone watching would have heard no reply, just the lightest whisper as a breeze snaked through the trees.

The girl’s eyes widened even further, the knife slipping from her loosened grip and falling to the grass silently.

“Shi . . . ni . . . gami?” she whispered.

As the night deepened her whispers with no reply continued. Sobs racked her body once more before disappearing. Time continued to move and finally, with a single nod, she slipped to her feet.

“I accept,” she said, the words barely audible even in the still night scene.

Police sirens sounded in the distance, coming closer. The girl turned, exiting the graveyard slowly, the same way she had come running, taking the knife back with her.

Her once brown eyes now glowed red.

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