Proulouge

 

Prologue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I sprinted down the dark alley, hoping I was alone. The water splashed up under my feet. I reached the end too soon. I clung to the rough wall, sliding down to my knees. It would start and second.

            I covered my ears, rocking back and forth.

            The flashes started only seconds later.

            My hands went from protecting my ears to clawing them.

            The voice came next.

            Run. It demanded.

            I stood up and began to run.

            Out of control.

            Fire, It demanded next.

            I searched the dumpsters until my hand purchased around a box of matches. I struck a match, throwing the glowing stick into the dumpster. I caught fire, and I ran to my next victim.

            Faster! It hissed.

            I pushed my legs faster without warning. I skidded to a halt in front of the hospital.

            Fire, It demanded again. I struck the next one. If I had ever learned one thing, it was that fire spread. No matter how small.

            I threw myself threw the door of the hospital. An old man sat there, his frail hands clutching a boquet of flowers. On the other side of the room sat a little girl, sobbing for her mother.

            My heart throbbed.

            No! The voice hissed in my head. The voice leaked through my brain. I threw on match, two, three, four.

            I sprinted from the hospital with amazing speed.

            Back down the alley. I dropped to my knees as the flashes started again.

            And then, It was gone.

            I crawled, sobbing, to peer my head out from the alley, looking at the disasted I had created. No, it hadn’t been Fox Skeffington that did that. It did that.

            I put my head in hands, my sobs growing louder. I knew I needed to get away from the hospital, erase and suspicioun it had been me… no… It.

            But for now, I cried.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

This is a really short prologue, I know.