Prologue

He watched in complete shock as the child's lifeless corpse fell to the ground. Blood was splattered everywhere. On his clothes, seeping into the ground, misting in the air.

He looked to his friends and saw the horror in his eyes reflected back at him. He was as still as the small, cold body on the floor. His heart felt as lifeless as the now brutalized carcass in front of him.

And he was crying, his tears carving shiny trails through the blood on his face.

But of course, they didn't see that.