Prologue

I spent my life until now, hiding from those who are different, living in a world where my talents are used to serve the GOOD. But when everything becomes unbearable and we want to give up, the hunt begins...

Am I the only one?

Summer, 2020 France

Was I ready for the end of this theater play in which the universe had cast me a role? Would I be prepared for such a test? Or, maybe... My mind was numb from all these years? Was it all in vain? Beyond my anger and my distress, I had a brief glimmer of hope. All this was over and I would soon get away with her...

I took a step, crossed the threshold... My view became confused... my breath had stopped, and in front of me, in a twinkling... I saw a nightmare...

The smell of blood, I had loved so much before, had twisted my heart with sorrow now. The desk was spilled, near a fallen chair. With a prowess, frozen fingers, unbreathing, I pushed the door a bit more to unveil another part of this agony...

A roar arose from my chest and I raged, trying to understand what had really happened...

The light changed, shadows sprang out of nothingness and twined together to formed deeply thick smoke clouds, which gradually morphed into a human form...

I screamed in terror...

Everything disappeared and the darkness reigned again...

At the end of the longest tunnel, I saw the one who had always accompanied me, lurking in the shadows - the predator... It was there... It was approaching... I heard its roar. It was ready. Its prey was at his feet...

I looked around me, bewildered. I saw only my own reflection... It sneered...