Prologue
The moon caressed the gentle waters of a rustling creek.
The watery bed broken by stones and the decaying body of Zara Todd. A
silvery sweet glow reflected the eyes of the young slave girls violently
green eyes, wide in the horror of her last breath. A feast for the
scavengers, her corpse devoured by the bugs and wildlife. Yet, her eyes
remained glossy and intact.
The quivering of the restless breeze
stirred the weeping willows of the plantation. A noble house, once
inhabited, stood motionless. As if it had never been touched by evil or
murder. A girl could be seen wandering in and amongst the willows,
barefoot and bloody. Her black curls matted with blood, leaves and the
earth to which she was married.
For a moment, she stopped.
Waiting in the silence for some sign of her lover, long gone from the
place. Her violently green eyes were sunk deep in her thin face. Her,
light, cinnamon-colored skin glowed iridescent in the light of a fiery
moon. Her dress, caked in the blood of her struggle, hung loosely from
her bony shoulders.
Slowly, she knelt beside the body that had
once been her own. Her trembling fingers brushed the cadavers face,
tears chorusing down the specters own face. Gradually, her eyes searched
the horizon, haunted by an undeserved fate. Then, from deep within the
soul of one unjustly murdered, came a scream. The screams of anguish
flourished and echoed in the silence of a callous world. The willows
trembled with the pain of the sound and, in the echo; the blood of a
lone traveler was turned to ice.
Warily, the lone traveler crept
up to the place where the apparition lay. Stretched over the corpse's
body, the phantom wept tears of ice and blood. Her eyes remained ajar
and flooded by her tears. Hearing a twig snap, her violent green eyes
turned on the stranger. In that moment, all that entertained his mind
was to escape his peril. Yet, in that moment, his peril became reality.
When the spirit arose, he was dead upon the fallen leaves of autumn.
Blood covered his body, the ghostly girl's mouth dripping with it.
Gently, she smiled at her victim. He was not her original prey, but the
randomness of the violence eased her tortured soul. From then on she
devoured all that strayed into her path.
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