1 Prologue

"Have you ever been in love? Not mere affection, or some childhood infatuation. True, depthless love.

Love like the light of the sun, revealing the world around you in a way you could never see before. Who could think to reach the sun, to bathe in its light? But you found it, you were chosen over all others.

Love that makes you feel complete, unbeatable. What could stand against it? You stand atop the world, yet there is nothing before you but potential. Your love is a love you could not fathom living without… For what could there be without it, but darkness?

If you had felt that love; a passion and devotion without equal… What would happen if you lost it? Not to time, or the natural course of things, but taken from you?

Casting you down into darkness…

Alone with your rage…

With your failure to protect them. A pain that numbs you to all else… To self-preservation, to conscience… Is there any length you would not go to, to see your love again?

Is any price too high? What lines would you cross? And when you crossed them, would you even know?

No matter the cost, no matter the change wrought in you… Would you stop? Could you? What would you sacrifice to see the light again? To feel its warmth? What would you do, for love?"