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Volume 1, Part 4 - Hush in the Throne Room The preceding week was foggy as the day she had found them, but she remembered spending all the tears she had between her dreams. Now she couldn't force herself to cry as she read the words on the gravestone over and over and over and over and over and...

Volume 1, Part 3 - The Girl Trapped in the Present July 2011 - Two Months Ago Right, left, right, left, right, left, right, left, right. Kris felt her breath hitch from the exertion as she picked up speed. Like she was still on the track field, her calves and thighs subscribed to memory, and...

Volume 1, Part 2 - Then Behind Me March 2011 - Six Months Ago The end of her life, between parted velvet curtains, beckoned from the auditorium's recessed stage. The headmaster of Plateau Senior High School bowed to the crowd and offered his place to a homeroom professor when he descended the...

Volume 1, Part 1 - Yesterday "I wish it was yesterday," said Kris. Yesterday was a beautiful instant. Kris escaped it as quickly as she entered, wishing it the same tepid goodbye she had offered thousands of its ancestors. Her infant self, facing her first farewell, might have struggled, but...

Letter 1 𒅆𒊒 𒍪𒅆, Life is priceless. Even we thought so. Yet, it is so easy to put a price on the soul when the temptation of something greater whispers that sickeningly sweet siren song in your ear. It is inside us all. The moment you try to deny it, the battle is already lost. Humans are an...

When Cynthia and Lance are murdered, the clock starts ticking. Their surviving daughter Kris falls succumbs to a life she could never live in the Champions' shadows, and her brother Saber seeks answers to questions his mother left behind. An inheritance. A coded message. A worldwide secret. All...